JUST-IN: Iran Just Threatened To Cut The Undersea Internet Cables Running Through The Strait Of Hormuz And The Red Sea

Ninety-five to ninety-seven percent of global internet traffic does not travel by satellite. It travels through physical glass fibres buried one to two metres beneath the seabed. Your bank transfers.

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Your stock trades. Your cloud computing. The data flows connecting every financial market on earth to every other financial market.

All of it runs through cables laid across the same shallow waters where the IRGC is currently operating a selective toll regime and collecting yuan for passage.

The cables at risk per TeleGeography: FALCON, Gulf Bridge International, Europe India Gateway, SEA-ME-WE 6, AAE-1, and FLAG in the Hormuz corridor. EIG, AAE-1, Seacom, SMW-4, SMW-5, SMW-6, IMEWE, and 2Africa Pearls in the Red Sea. These are not obscure regional links. They are the backbone of global digital commerce connecting Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

The IRGC stated on March 28: “Critical infrastructure in Hormuz and Red Sea will not be spared if aggression continues.”

No cable has been cut. Google and Meta have activated contingency rerouting. The threat is credible as asymmetric signaling but execution is high-risk and likely a bluff. Here is why.

In 2008, eight cables were severed off the Egyptian coast. Seventy to eighty percent of Middle East-to-Europe traffic went dark. Repairs took three to eight weeks. In 2024, Houthi-related anchor drags in the Red Sea damaged four cables. Repairs took months. Both incidents were almost certainly accidental.

Deliberate state-sponsored cable sabotage at scale has never been executed because the consequences are mutually destructive: Iran’s own connectivity depends on these same cables, and any confirmed cut would trigger immediate US, UK, and French naval retaliation from fleets already in theatre.See more, details. .