📸 The Guardian map of the passage of important digital cables through the Strait of Hormuz

📸 The Guardian map of the passage of important digital cables through the Strait of Hormuz

At least seven important submarine Internet and data cables pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

One of the most important of them is the AAE-1 cable; About 25,000 kilometers of systems connecting Southeast Asia to Europe from the Middle East and Africa.

This situation made Hormuz, in addition to the energy bottleneck, also one of the most sensitive digital communication bottlenecks in the world.