US blockade, war may lead to Bab-El-Mandeb closure

As the conflict between Iran and the US-led coalition intensifies, Tehran is signaling a dangerous new front: the world’s undersea fiber-optic cables.

Iranian media has explicitly warned that the concentration of critical data cables in the Strait of Hormuz creates a “vulnerable point” for the region’s digital economy — and by extension, the global one.


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