India, June 23 -- Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said on Monday that the Strait of Hormuz can "never return to what it was before the war," adding that it will be "managed under Iranian arrangements."

"I was among the first to say clearly at the start of the war, everyone should know that management of the Strait of Hormuz will never return to the way it was before the war," he said, adding that "Iran has never trusted the Americans and never will."

Ghalibaf, speaking to Iranian media on the flight back from negotiations in Switzerland, also said that Iran has agreed to set up a "telephone hotline" for the strategic waterway to "prevent and resolve any misunderstandings" with the US and other countries as ships pass ...