Hyderabad, April 22 -- Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said any ceasefire can only survive if it is fully respected, warning that maritime restrictions, economic pressure and continuing regional hostilities are undermining the truce and threatening the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Wednesday, April 22, marked the end of day 15 of the ceasefire between Iran and the United States, with uncertainty growing over whether diplomacy can hold.

In a post on X, Ghalibaf said a "complete ceasefire" would only be meaningful if the maritime blockade ended, what he described as the "hostage-taking of the world's economy" stopped, and military escalation across multiple fronts was halted. He added that reopening the Strait of H...