As tensions rise across the Middle East, the Strait of Hormuz has once again emerged as one of the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoints. A top Iranian lawmaker has declared that the critical waterway will never return to what it was before, and there was no force that can open it without Tehran's approval. Ebrahim Rezaei, the the spokesperson for the national security and foreign policy committee of the Iranian parliament, asked the United States to either submit to Tehran's diplomacy and conditions, or submit to IRGC's power of missiles.