Iran's claim over subsea chokepoint pushes US tech companies to overland fiber.
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Iran’s claim over subsea chokepoint pushes US tech companies to overland fiber.
Multicolored lines show undersea Internet cable routes running through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world’s ‘digital chokepoints’ have never been more vulnerable
Plan floated in Iranian media to extract revenues from US tech firms would rely on intimidation and is legally dubious
Tehran is floating the idea of charging the world’s largest tech companies – including Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon – for…
Iranian outlets with ties to the IRGC have floated the idea that Tehran assert control over undersea fiber-optic cables running…
IRGC-linked media have called on Tehran to impose fees on submarine cables through the Strait of Hormuz and monitor global data…
Iran has threatened to assert control over the subsea cables that run through the Strait of Hormuz.
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