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Forget Oil — Iran May Have Found the World’s Biggest Weakness

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David breaks down Iran’s growing leverage over global undersea internet cables, the Strait of Hormuz, and why countries like India, China, and the U.S. are paying close attention. This explainer uncovers the hidden infrastructure powering the internet and the geopolitical battle forming around it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The IRGC just made a request on a topic that nobody was thinking about in the straight

0:04.1

of homeless because everybody's straight of hormones.

0:05.6

All they're thinking about is ships coming through.

0:07.8

Two million dollars is what they want, but here's what they asked.

0:10.3

97 plus percent of the internet you and I use is from underwater cables, not satellites.

0:16.9

We think it's satellites or we think these cables are outside.

0:19.3

It's 97 percent submarine cables. and guess how much cables are underwater

0:23.6

750,000 miles and by the way do you know how much each mile cost to put down there

0:28.6

400,000 upwards of one and a half million dollars this is trillion

0:32.6

trillion plus to build all these cables and the reason why iran figured this part out is the following. They're sitting here saying, wait a minute, these cables are not only going through a straight of Hormuz, a couple of the points are in Iran. So if you want to come through and build something in Strait of Hormuz, you got to come through us because if you don't, we potentially do what anything we're gonna get

0:55.1

into that and watch this you know what country started shivering when this

0:57.7

announcement was made this country called India with 1.4 billion people why because

1:01.8

60% of all the power for cables that India gets it goes through Mumbai do you know

1:09.2

what would happen if these guys all of a sudden said, no problem?

1:11.6

We're going to drop mines on these cables and destroy the cables.

1:15.6

Some countries could lose internet for weeks to months and the world finally realized.

1:21.6

Maybe Iranians are not asking about terrorists and stuff like that.

1:25.6

They actually are starting to realize

1:27.5

they want control and influence we're gonna talk about all these topics today so if

1:36.8

you give out of this video give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel and we

1:39.5

are getting very close to 10 million subway at 7 million 3 million away to the

1:43.4

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