🇮🇷 Is Iran finally overplaying its hand? Iran already controls who gets to move oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz. Now, according to Fars, it wants to do the same thing to the internet, forcing foreign cable companies to get permits, pay fees, and follow Iranian law just to keep their undersea cables running through the strait. Those cables carry around 15–20% of global internet and financial data traffic between Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. Think about that for a second. One narrow strip of water, and Iran would be sitting on top of both the energy flows and the data flows. You want your oil through? Pay up. You want your internet through? Pay up. It worked on shipping. They know it worked. And now they're trying to run the same move on the global internet.