IRGC warns seven internet cables under Strait of Hormuz are 'new targets'
The IRGC has warned that seven major undersea internet cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz could become 'new targets', with spokesman Hossein Mohebbi promising 'new weapons will be unveiled'.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned it could target seven major undersea internet cables running beneath the Strait of Hormuz, presenting the cables as “new targets” in its confrontation with the United States.
“Seven major internet cables run beneath the Strait of Hormuz,” IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said on Monday, claiming that all internet and commercial data traffic passed through them, the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.
“We just want them to know that new targets will be unveiled. New weapons will be unveiled,” Mohebbi added during a ceremony at Tehran’s Sacred Defense Museum, vowing to drive what he called the remnants of US power out of the region.
The warning follows an earlier statement this month from Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, who told Press TV that Tehran could strike undersea internet cables, data centres and artificial intelligence facilities linked to the US if another war broke out.
“We have not yet included these assets among our targets,” Rezaei said, adding that such infrastructure could be destroyed in a renewed conflict.
The US and Israel launched a war against Iran on 28 February, after which Tehran effectively closed the strait to most commercial traffic; US Central Command disputes the claim, saying about 400 merchant ships transited the waterway in the past week. A June memorandum of understanding on freedom of navigation in the strait has stalled over security disagreements.
No US response to the cables warning had been reported at the time of publication.
Sources: Anadolu Agency (reporting from IRIB); Yeni Şafak; Gulf News (CentCom counter-claim, regional context).
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