US media: Iran plans to collect tolls for submarine optical cables in the Strait of Hormuz

On May 17, according to CNN, inspired by its successful blockade of the Strait of Hormuz during the war, Iran is turning its attention to a hidden lifeline of the global economy: the submarine optical cable laid under the waterway and carrying massive amounts of Internet and financial data traffic to and from Europe, Asia and the Persian Gulf. Iran intends to charge the world's major technology giants in exchange for using the Internet submarine optical cable laid at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz; at the same time, media close to Iranian officials have also implicitly threatened that if the relevant companies refuse to pay, their data traffic transmission may face interruption. (Jin Shi)