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Iranian news agency suggests undersea cables vulnerable in Strait of Hormuz
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A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, April 22, 2026. (AP)
A semiofficial news agency close to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard raised the idea again today that Gulf Arab states remain vulnerable to having their undersea data cables being cut in the Strait of Hormuz.
The report by the Tasnim news agency suggests that “simultaneous damage to several major cables — whether through accidents or deliberate action — could trigger severe outages across the Persian Gulf.”
Multiple cables run through the strait. Already, the region has faced outages after undersea cables were cut multiple times in the Red Sea. Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels has threatened cables in the past.
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