Ali Nikzad, Iran’s deputy speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, has said the Strait of Hormuz is not going to return to its pre-war condition, Al Jazeera reports.

Addressing the assembly on the current conditions in the region, he said: “The Islamic Republic of Iran tried to inform the aggressor and deluded enemy of the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is not going to return to the pre-war conditions during the days of the war.”

“Unfortunately, they tried to pretend not to know, but the passage of time is the greatest teacher for deluded people, and today the American-Zionist enemy, with a strong fist of armed forces, has practically realised that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz has no military solution and must submit to the new order in the region,” Nikzad said.

He added that Iran’s most important priority currently, however, is to reduce the country’s economic problems.