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Ricchmoen:
[b]👁 What If Iran сuts the undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz?

If Gulf States continue to host American forces, Iran could target the undersea internet cables threading through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. These chokepoints carry roughly 17–30% of the planet's international internet traffic (depending on exact routing between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East).

What happens if several major cables are deliberately severed (or even heavily damaged) in a serious escalation?

🌏Near-total international internet blackout across Gulf states
Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, parts of Iraq would lose almost all external connectivity. Local intranets, cached YouTube/Netflix (if already downloaded), and some domestic banking apps might limp along for a while. But anything needing real-time global reach (WhatsApp calls abroad, Instagram, most cloud services, international Zoom) would collapse within hours.

🌏Massive global slowdown
The cables in the Persian Gulf + Red Sea corridor are one of the planet's true digital chokepoints. Even partial damage would spike latency worldwide, cripple cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud regions in the Gulf and beyond), slow streaming, break real-time trading, delay software updates, and make remote work from many regions painful or impossible.

🌏Repair times measured in months
Fixing a single deep-water cable requires specialized cable ships. In 2024–2025 Red Sea incidents, one cable took ~5 months because repair vessels couldn't safely approach. In open conflict or a closed Strait of Hormuz, those ships simply won't be allowed in. We're talking 6–12+ months of degraded service.

Global implications

🔶 Stock exchanges (including oil futures) paralyzed or forced onto backup satellite links with tiny capacity

🔶 Airlines, ports, logistics chains frozen without global coordination

🔶 Massive outages in fintech, e-commerce, payment gateways

🔶 AI / hyperscale data centers in UAE & Saudi Arabia become isolated islands

🔶 Noticeable internet slowdown in India, Pakistan, East Africa, parts of Europe

🔶 International payments (SWIFT, cards, crypto exchanges) start failing or incur huge delays

🔶 Remote work for thousands of companies grinds to a halt

👍 US-Israel-Iran war | @geopolitics_prime[/b]

🎥WATCH: IDF troops identified a Hezbollah terrorist cell unloading weapons, including an RPG, from a vehicle in southern Lebanon, with the intent of attacking IDF soldiers. pic.twitter.com/FOCfTVZdm3

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 18, 2026

🇮🇷🇸🇦🇺🇸⚡️NOW: Massive strike in Riyadh, Saudi Capital. pic.twitter.com/z9G35CDPpc

— MonitorX (@MonitorX99800) March 18, 2026

AngelicBeing:
Well , Iran too will suffer as well, As E dey pain Dem E dey sweet me.


Iran na useless mor, onic dem, ented country, it is time to completely cut off the head of the Snake 🐍 regime in lran, as time goes on more Arab nations especially the GCC region might be forced to join the war, lran should be flogged to stupor ooooooooo mucheche Hahaha 😂

Ricchmoen:
⚡⚡🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 US-Israeli airstrikes have hit the port of Bandar Anzali, located on the Caspian Sea coast, in northern Iran, Gilan Province.

Icktioaxen:
🚫 Iran's IRGC claims it recently destroyed several U.S. fighter jets based in the region using missiles and drones. LIE.

✅ No U.S. fighter jets have been struck by Iran. In fact, U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps fighter aircraft continue to demonstrate unmatched lethality and air superiority during strike waves into Iran. TRUTH. - CENTCOM

Ricchmoen:
⚡️⚡️🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 American B-1B Lancer supersonic strategic bombers have been denied airspace access via continental Europe, and have been forced to fly from the U.K, around the Iberian coast and then getting mid-air refueled near Italy & Greece before hitting their targets in Iran.

Ricchmoen:
⚡️🇦🇪 The emirati FM condemns the israeli strike on the iranian South pars gas fields, branding it a dangerous escalation.

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– Joe Kent, Trump administration official resigned due to his opposition to the military operation against Iran, stated that Charlie Kirk, strongly opposed war with Iran and directly informed Trump about this, but was later killed, and we were prevented from raising any… pic.twitter.com/G0GqsEN4ia

— MonitorX (@MonitorX99800) March 19, 2026

AngelicBeing:
I am a dead mugus and a terrorist sympathizer, l am pained because there will be no virgin for me when I get to my useless paradise, l don't want to miss my own virgins, I know you are entitled to your opinion as well but I want my own virgins as well in my useless paradise l am a brainwashed mugu as well.

SEE IT: U.S. Central Command shares new video of U.S. forces targeting Iranian assets. pic.twitter.com/Edzdl1KbyM

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 18, 2026

BREAKING: "The last job anyone in the world wants right now—senior leader for the IRGC or Basij. Temp jobs, all of them."

"To borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War Two, we've decided to share the ocean with Iran. We've given them the bottom half." — Secretary of… pic.twitter.com/sSnDmMjMZL

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 19, 2026

Iran’s IRGC released a footage reportedly showing U.S. F-35 jet being hit over Iran.

Note that we can’t independently confirm the authenticity of the footage. pic.twitter.com/9N0ePd2LLf

— Clash Report (@clashreport) March 19, 2026