Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Monday threatened to place internet fibre-optic cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz under a “permit system”, in a move seen as part of Tehran’s efforts to tig…

ALBAWABA- Tehran is escalating efforts to consolidate control over the Strait of Hormuz by introducing new regulations targeting undersea internet cable

Plan floated in Iranian media to extract revenues from US tech firms would rely on intimidation and is legally dubious

Carla Norrlöf considers the implications of the regime’s threat to impose a toll on undersea cable traffic.