Iran: If they target our infrastructure, we can destroy internet cables passing under the Strait of Hormuz

Brigadier General Yedullah Javani, Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps for Political Affairs, explained his country's new goals in an interview with Iran's Arabic media organ Al-Alam.

Saying that the USA should completely withdraw from the region, Javani stated that the conditions in the region will never return to the pre-war period.

Javani said, "The USA and its allies have huge capital, and if they target our infrastructure, Iran will use all its capacity. Iran can easily destroy the internet cables passing under the Strait of Hormuz." he said.

In his statement the previous day, Revolutionary Guards Army Spokesperson Brigadier General Hüseyin Muhibbi also hinted at an attack on 7 major cables that pass under the Strait of Hormuz and provide global internet and commercial data flow.

According to TeleGeography and Submarine Networks databases, there are at least 7 main systems in the axis of the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf in the submarine cable network that carries more than 97 percent of the global data flow.

Critical fiber optic lines laid at the base of Hormuz affect not only the internet access of the Gulf countries, but also the financial transactions of trillions of dollars of oil and gas trade and some logistics data networks of military bases.