Tehran, Sept. 20 -- Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said there would be no opening of the Strait of Hormuz until Iran's seven conditions were met, adding that Tehran must pursue both military action and negotiations at the appropriate time.

While addressing the Iranian Parliament, Ghalibaf said, "We believe that the duality of war or negotiation is not real, but that we must both fight and negotiate. We must fight sensibly and decisively and negotiate with authority and rationality at the right time."

Ghalibaf said Iran must use its military power to push back its adversary and consolidate battlefield gains through diplomacy.

"That is, at the right moment, with all the military power we have, we must push back the en...