Iran FM: Iran Will Permanently Redesign Hormuz Navigation Rules Even After War

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signaled that Iran intends to permanently redesign the rules of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz even after the war ends — a long-term geopolitical claim over the world's most critical maritime chokepoint. This goes beyond the current blockade and suggests Iran's strategic objective is to leverage the crisis to extract permanent changes to how shipping through the strait is governed. Iran's FM also stated Iran never sought a ceasefire and said it was 'too late' for negotiations while bombing continues. Trump administration rebuffed Middle Eastern allies' efforts to start diplomatic negotiations, per three sources familiar with those efforts.