Yousef Ramazani
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How Iran’s Strait of Hormuz cable sovereignty could reshape global internet governance

In the wake of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran and the subsequent maritime banditry and piracy, the Islamic Republic is reportedly moving to assert its long-dormant sovereign rights over the submarine internet cables that traverse the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.

This strategic reorientation – as confirmed by some reports – promises to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue while fundamentally reshaping the legal and economic architecture of global data transmission.

The unprovoked military aggression against Iran, which halted with a ceasefire on April 8, 2026, has fundamentally altered the strategic calculus of the Persian Gulf.

During the 40 days of aggression against Iran, a previously overlooked dimension of the country’s sovereign territory emerged as a critical vulnerability for the global digital economy.

Ivan Kesic
PressTV

Israeli-American casino mogul Miriam Adelson is back in the news. The fifth richest woman in the world has emerged as a kingmaker in American politics following Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

The 79-year-old widow of Sheldon Adelson who was known for his empire of casinos and resort hotels across the United States, Miriam Adelson is the biggest donor to the Republican Party.

More importantly, she is a Zionist settler who was born and raised in the occupied Palestinian territories and has championed the cause of settler-colonialism through different means.

More recently, speaking at an annual conference organized by the Israeli daily Israel Hayom that she owns in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on Sunday, Adelson said Trump’s return to the White House “provides us (Israelis) with a tailwind.”

“Trump is the best president for Israel and the Jews, but he wants to engage with a united, energetic, rational, and successful people of Israel. He helps those who help themselves. He loves winners – and that's one reason why Israel is right to demand victory in this war. We deserve it. We need it,” she said.

According to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission in October this year, Adelson donated $100 million to a campaign committee supporting the candidacy of Trump. The money was distributed through four payments to her political action committee (PAC), Preserve America, with $25 million in July, August and September, and an additional $20 million at the end of September.

She thus became Trump's largest single donor, continuing a pattern of donations with her late husband during previous presidential campaigns of Republican candidates, including Trump.

Ivan Kesic

More than five months into the Israeli genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the death toll of Palestinians has just crossed 31,000, with thousands more still trapped under the rubble.

Almost 14,000 of those killed by the Israeli military, using sophisticated American weapons, are children and approximately 9,000 are women. More than 72,000 others are wounded.

The vast majority of these people were killed in Israeli air strikes targeting civilian infrastructure, in which almost half of the cases involved unguided aerial bombs.

Information about the types of bombs used by the Israeli regime has been revealed by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and their effect on the population and infrastructure of Gaza is also known to the US intelligence apparatus and the government.

However, the Joe Biden administration has continued to supply lethal weaponry to the Benjamin Netanyahu regime in Tel Aviv, ignoring growing calls worldwide, including by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), for a halt to arms shipments to Israel.

Observers have questioned the decision by the Biden administration to airdrop aid over Gaza, which killed five people a few days ago while continuing to provide fuel to the Israeli killing machine.

Ivan Kesic

One of the key but underreported factors of the unwavering US support for the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza is the overwhelming presence of Zionist Jews in the Joe Biden administration.

These Zionist Jews exert enormous influence in the American power corridors and enjoy unconditional support from the US president who has on numerous occasions boasted of being a “Zionist” himself.

The presence and influence of Zionist Jews in the White House has always been a point of discussion, however, since the events of October 7, it has manifested itself in many ways.

Biden administration’s vetoes of ceasefire resolutions in the UN Security Council, which drew widespread condemnation from pro-Palestine groups, rekindled the debate about the Zionist influence.

Raising the issue of the dominance of Zionist Jews in the US administration and policy circles is often seen through the prism of "anti-Semitism" in the West, even though the same people paradoxically like to boast about the disproportionate number of Jews in other fields.

The Zionist Jewishness of Biden's cabinet was pointed out recently by The Forward, a progressive media for a Jewish American audience, as well as the Israeli right-wing newspaper Times of Israel.

Being a Jew should not be seen as a problem, but those in the Biden administration have clearly exhibited the tendencies of Zionism – not only justifying the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza but also lobbying for more financial and military aid to the occupying regime. There are also non-Jewish Zionists whose support is motivated by Christian Zionism or belonging to pro-Israel lobbies, a common case in the ranks of the Republican Party.

The problem lies in the fact that everyone in the Biden administration is a radical Zionist who will uncompromisingly justify Israeli war crimes, with slight disagreements over relatively minor issues, such as illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.