Tasnim, a media outlet tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, has mapped the Persian Gulf’s undersea internet cables and cloud infrastructure in what reads as a warning that the region’s digital backbone may now be in Tehran’s line of fire.
Published Wednesday, the report framed the Strait of Hormuz not only as an energy chokepoint but also as a corridor for submarine cables serving the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
It noted that several major systems pass through or near the waterway and argued that Gulf states south of Iran rely far more heavily on maritime internet routes.
Rather than a neutral technical explainer, the article cast cables, landing stations and data hubs as strategic pressure points.
It highlighted the concentration of cloud and data‑center infrastructure in the UAE and Bahrain, effectively sketching assets whose disruption could carry major economic and communications consequences.
The warning comes as digital infrastructure has already been hit in the war. Recent reports said Iranian drone strikes targeted Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, underscoring the vulnerability of commercial cloud systems.
Tasnim’s piece suggests Iran‑linked media are signaling that undersea cables and regional data hubs now sit alongside ports, shipping lanes and energy facilities in the conflict’s widening map of pressure points.
