The Iranian authorities have launched a serious warning this Monday: Tehran is willing to destroy data centers linked to artificial intelligence and submarine cables in the Persian Gulf if attacks against the country resume. In this context, they have emphasized that the United States "has very expensive assets" in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
The head of Iran's National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, has pointed out in statements broadcast by Press TV that "those extremely expensive assets have not been included for the moment among the targets to attack" in previous episodes of tension, although he has made it clear that this situation could change.
"If this war resumes, many of those cables and data centers, in addition to artificial intelligence facilities, will be destroyed," he stated, while describing such infrastructures as an essential part of the "pulse of the U.S. economy in the region."
"They are worth more than 2 trillion dollars," Rezaei highlighted, before stressing that "Iran is absolutely prepared to activate new capabilities in case of a U.S. attack."
In the same vein, he insisted that Tehran "has not yet shown all its cards." "We have done so to have a bullet in the chamber in case it is necessary. If another confrontation were to occur, we will clearly make the enemy encounter a much broader plan," concluded the head of the National Security Council.