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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
World
Bernadette B. Tixon

Iran Threatens 'World's Internet' as Revolutionary Guards Spokesman Shares Apparent AI-Generated Missile Image

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebi shared an apparent AI-generated missile image on X as Tehran warned over undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz (Credit: MC3 Carla Ocampo/Wikimedia Commons Public Domain)

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have warned that the 'world's internet' relies on undersea cables running beneath the Strait of Hormuz, in a message aimed at Tehran's adversaries.

Brigadier General Hossein Mohebi, spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said seven major cables passed beneath the waterway. 'All of which the world's internet and commercial data depend on; we are reminding them of this so that the enemy knows,' he said.

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