Iran needs to keep the strait closed as long as they can to hopefully turn most of the world against the US. It will hurt, but the ignorant majority need to experience the consequences of their actions.
The actual source is pew research, they didn’t survey all countries but China outranked the US in the majority of countries they surveyed
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/07/15/people-in-many-countries-now-view-china-more-positively-than-the-u-s/