All this because America on behest of their master in the terrorist apartheid regime started an illegal war against civilians.
Marco Rubio stated as much, that America was pulled into the war.
Not only has that made Iranian people side more with their government, especially after revelations that Trump was providing weapons to protestors early in the year, but the new government has become more hardline.
Imagine if Iran unjustly attacked America to "save Americans from their Epstein paedophiles and corrupt MAGA politicians", while bombing a children school in New York on the first day, and then going on to destroy other schools and hospitals in the following weeks - you wouldn't become more patriotic and rally around your government to go after the attackers?!
Iran is doing exactly as they stated they would, and gave us at least a year's notice of their intentions to close the strait, and bomb American interests in the Middle East - also exactly what the terrorist apartheid regime wanted: they want to destroy the Middle East, especially UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia as almost half of Saudi Arabia is part of the "Greater Israel project".
Thanks to the terrorist apartheid regime, we have been giving over 20 years of warnings to Iran to destroy their country - they had plenty of time to prepare.
Remember former NATO commander and US Army General Wesley Clark shortly after 9/11: plan to “take out” seven countries in five years, naming Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.