France 24
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Digital bottleneck: How Iran wants to use internet access for leverage in the war
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Iran is considering charging major tech companies for access to undersea internet cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz, seeking to use control of this critical infrastructure as economic leverage against Western nations.
Digital bottleneck: How Iran wants to use internet access for leverage in the war
Tehran is floating the idea of charging the world’s largest tech companies – including Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon – for using the undersea internet cables crossing the Strait of Hormuz in a new attempt to exploit its control over the critical waterway to ratchet up economic pressure on the West.
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