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Iran, the Internet, and the Great Underwater Extension-Cord Panic

No, five cable segments in the Strait of Hormuz are not the planet’s single red extension cord.

Report // Iran // By Witness Desk Media // 2026-09-25

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By this week, Gary still carried more than 20,000 outages, making up a huge share of the remaining crisis across the region. Those are the numbers. But numbers do what numbers always do: they behave. They sit there in clean rows and let people pretend this is manageable.

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By this week, Gary still carried more than 20,000 outages, making up a huge share of the remaining crisis across the region. Those are the numbers. But numbers do what numbers always do: they behave. They sit there in clean rows and let people pretend this is manageable.

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