{"id":1005589,"date":"2026-04-29T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005589"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:47:59","slug":"the-hormuz-digital-chokepoint-how-does-the-iran-war-threaten-subsea-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/the-hormuz-digital-chokepoint-how-does-the-iran-war-threaten-subsea-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hormuz digital chokepoint: How does the Iran war threaten subsea cables?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran warned last week that submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz were a vulnerable point for the region&#8217;s digital economy, raising concerns about potential attacks on critical infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The narrow waterway, already a chokepoint for global \u200boil shipments, is equally vital for the digital world. Several fibre-optic cables snake across the seabed of the strait, connecting countries \u200bfrom India and Southeast Asia to Europe via the Gulf states and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran warned last week that submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz were a vulnerable point for the region&#8217;s digital economy, raising concerns about potential attacks on critical infrastructure. The narrow waterway, already a chokepoint for global \u200boil shipments, is equally vital for the digital world. Several fibre-optic cables snake across the seabed of the strait, connecting countries \u200bfrom India and Southeast Asia to Europe via the Gulf states and Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}