Tehran, Nov. 12 -- Iran's Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said that the Strait of Hormuz will "never return" to its pre-war status following the US-Israel war on Iran, asserting that Tehran and Oman have reached an understanding on overseeing the strategically important waterway.

In an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Ghalibaf said that the understanding with Oman was part of Iran's seven-point proposal to the US in order to end the eight-month conflict, which started after US-Israeli strikes killed Iran's former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28 this year.

The Parliamentary Speaker signalled that the future arrangements governing the Strait of Hormuz would be different from those tha...