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.
Encouraged by its successful wartime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran now wants to extend its control beneath the critical waterway by imposing fees on the internet cables that traverse the Strait.
