U.S. ‘Sinister Plot’ Thwarted With Collapse of Southern Corridor
TEHRAN – Iran’s judiciary chief said on Saturday that recent events in the Persian Gulf represent the “clearest evidence” of American strategic failure, asserting that the collapse of a U.S.-backed “southern corridor” plan has “nipped in the bud” what he called Washington’s sinister scheme.
Judiciary chief Gholam-Hussein Mohseni Eje’i, in a social media, said the defeat of the southern corridor project had turned to an American dream of placing “chains of captivity” on Iran’s borders into a “nightmare” for aggressors. He added that recent enemy aggression against Iran should be understood within that framework.
The southern corridor refers to a shipping route along Oman’s coastline that the U.S. military established in May to provide an alternative passage through the Strait of Hormuz, in order to challenge Iran’s control of the strategic waterway under the Islamabad memorandum.
Iran responded initially with warnings and then targeting vessels which ignored them, ultimately bringing passage through the illegal corridor to zero.
Eje’i further stated that Iran’s border guards and the “guardians of Hormuz” are defending not only geographical borders but also the country’s “dignity and legal independence” against systematic aggression.
He asserted that the enemy’s “treachery and malice” will be transformed into a historic defeat.
The confrontation follows a June memorandum of understanding brokered with Pakistani mediation, which had temporarily eased clashes after the war erupted on Feb. 28 with large-scale U.S.-Israeli terrorist strikes on Iran. However, that agreement has since frayed, with both sides accusing each other of violations.