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  "tags": [
    "Politics + Issues",
    "Bab el-Mandeb Strait",
    "digital chokepoints",
    "iran",
    "middle east",
    "Red Sea",
    "Strait of Hormuz",
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  "textContent": "Early this week, Iranian state-linked media floated a plan to charge the operators of undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz for access to what they say is Iran’s offshore territory. The suggestion comes after Iranian warnings that several important cables in the strait were a vulnerable point for economies in the Middle East. […]\n\nThe post Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world’s ‘digital chokepoints’ have never been more vulnerable appeared first on Interaksyon.",
  "title": "Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world’s ‘digital chokepoints’ have never been more vulnerable"
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