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They can just hold the world’s supply of oil, ammonia and helium to ransom. Breaking an Iranian blockade by force would require a WW2-scale effort, with the US, Europe, China and the gulf states fighting alongside each other to take Tehran and impose some kind of regime change all parties find acceptable.
Isnt china and Iran allies and already have agreements for discounted oil trades?
China aren't strictly speaking allies. They get a lot of oil from Iran and have plenty of deals in place, to the point that many people believe that the Venezuela coup and Iran war are a US ploy to destabilise China specifically.
China basically stay out of geopolitics far more than people assume. They are very unlikely to enter the Iran war on either side, ever.
China and Russia would be fighting against the EU and US in that hypothetical wwiii scenario
Have you looked at a map? Do you know how far Hormuz is from Tehran?
That's the point. You would need to conquer the entire country to a point where firing off truck-launched ballistic missiles and Shahed drones isn't viable any more.
Unless Dickhead drops a nuke and threatens more. Which I wouldn't put past him.