Yahya Safavi, a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader and former IRGC commander, said in a documentary produced by the Revolutionary Guards that Khamenei ordered a plan to block the Strait of Hormuz in 2011. Safavi claimed the plan was completed within a month and that current regional events are a continuation of that strategy.
Yahya Safavi, a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated in a documentary produced by the IRGC that Khamenei ordered him in 2011 to devise a plan to block the Strait of Hormuz. According to Safavi, Khamenei allocated three months for the plan, but it was completed within a month in coordination with the IRGC Navy and Air and Space Force commanders at the time, and was subsequently submitted to the General Staff of the Armed Forces. Safavi claimed that 'what is happening today in the region is part of that same plan from 15 years ago,' and that Khamenei had predicted the use of the 'lever of power of the Strait of Hormuz' 14 to 19 years earlier.
The documentary, aired by Iranian state-aligned media, frames the current tensions in the Strait of Hormuz as the execution of a long-standing strategic directive. The Zioneer has previously reported on heightened tensions in the waterway, including US ultimatums and Iranian threats. The claim from a senior regime figure reinforces the narrative that Iran's posture in the strait is not ad hoc but part of a premeditated strategy, though the documentary's provenance as an IRGC production means the account should be treated as a regime-affiliated source. No independent verification of the plan's details or timeline is available.
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