Sounds hegemonic, monopolistic.
This is not sustainable. You don't even know what war you are trying to win now, but you sure have more nations than ever distrustful and concerned.
Everyone has a national interest.
Unfortunately, the issue is that the Iranians have only one playbook.
Sit at the table, feign interest, drag it out.
Threatening the neighbors and trying to block everyone else's oil is the same play with other tools.
But if you strip it down and they only have Hormuz which is their card.
The Houthis can go all out and it still isn't a second Hormuz type situation
You get reroutes, insurance spikes, and a lot of noise but eventually it doesn't hold.
More importnatly - if they mine the ENTIRE strait out somehow after their entire minisub fleet has been sent to kingdom come... the strait is how their own oil gets out and the people they're threatening have already shown they can push crude through it,
What point is a blockade that bankrupts the regime running it?
Whether or not they want the bomb is almost beside the point.
Their whole history is using negotiations to drag things.
Buying, selling, nukes, rugs it is the same habit.