🔥 So there's also a global internet cable laid there. Iran threatened to cut the global fiber optic internet cable in the Strait of Hormuz

Several backbone fiber optic lines (AAE‑1, FALCON, Gulf Bridge, TGN Gulf, EPEG, and others) pass through the Strait of Hormuz and neighboring waters, connecting the Persian Gulf, India, Asia, and Europe.

Damage to part of the cables will result in: severe slowdowns and outages in Gulf countries, India, parts of Asia and Africa, increased latency on Europe–Asia routes, and problems in financial systems, data centers, and AI servers in the region.

P.S. Basically, they've packed everything into this Hormuz strait—oil and gas, internet, gold, and escorts nearby. That's what drew Trump there so much. Curious how Chinese exchanges will operate with lag or what, especially interesting in the context of futures)))).

RISK: If they cut the cable in Hormuz, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, and those on the Asian route suffer first—the internet, APIs, orders lag, the order book could "collapse."