[krunck]

  1) Oman and Iran both have territorial waters that extend into the center of the strait. See #3
  2) What is "non-US backed oil?
  3) Every country has the right to control their territorial waters.
  4) Governments have worked hard to erode people's privacy rights such that crypto is not as untraceable as people still think.
  5) ?
  5) ?
  6) Let it happen.

[pessimizer]

These objections seem confused. The person you are replying to is not attacking Iran, but you seem to be defending Iran. They're saying that attacking Iran was a stupid idea, because it caused Iran to strangle the Strait of Hormuz, a thing they hadn't done and that there was no indication that they were considering doing before the attack.

It's even stupider than the OP said. Aside from the strait, when you destroy Iran's oil facilities, you raise the price of oil for the foreseeable future. When Iran retaliates by destroying the oil facilities of local allies, it raises the price of oil for the foreseeable future. The only beneficiaries are oilmen in the US, Russia and South America, and the US is also supposed to be attacking Russia and South America.