Iranian media urges IRGC to cut undersea cables in Strait of Hormuz

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Shariatmadari acknowledged that deliberately severing the cables would violate international law but argued that the action would be justified.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Hardline Iranian media figures have urged the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to disrupt or sever international undersea internet cables running through the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, arguing that the networks could be targeted to pressure the United States and its allies.

Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of the ultra-conservative Kayhan newspaper and a representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader at the publication, described interference with the cables as a “necessary measure.”

“Is it not our indisputable right, in order to bring these sources of evil to their knees and cut off their lifeline, to prevent internet cables from passing through the depths of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz?” Shariatmadari wrote.

“This necessary measure could be carried out by seriously disrupting the cables’ operation or even cutting them,” he added.

Shariatmadari acknowledged that deliberately severing the cables would violate international law but argued that the action would be justified by ongoing conflicts and sanctions.

His comments came one day after Al-Arabiya cited an unnamed US source as saying Tuesday’s strikes on Iran were intended to pre-empt an Iranian plan to target submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz.

IRGC-linked Tasnim News Agency has previously portrayed the underwater communications infrastructure as a potential point of leverage. Proposals have included imposing substantial permit fees on technology companies and regional governments as well as physically cutting the cables.

At least seven major commercial submarine cable systems pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Countries along the southern Persian Gulf depend on those connections for more than 90% of their internet, cloud computing, and banking traffic.

Iran is less dependent on the Gulf routes, with most of its own internet traffic traveling overland through Turkey.

Subsea cables carry the vast majority of global internet and financial traffic, connecting Europe, Asia, and the Persian Gulf. The networks support banking, cloud computing, government communications, and energy markets.

Analysts have warned that cutting cables in the Strait could significantly disrupt regional banking, supply chains and digital communications, although the connections passing specifically through Hormuz represent only a small portion of worldwide intercontinental data traffic.

 

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Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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