A senior Iranian official has threatened attacks on regional cables, data centers, and AI facilities if the war escalates sharply again.
Mohsen Rezaie, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran finds the latest U.S. response to a proposal to end the war 'insufficient,' according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. Rezaie said Iran is no longer responding to the U.S. and said Washington must clarify certain issues, though he gave no details.
He said the U.S. has accepted some of the seven conditions, but others remain unclear. He also said Tehran’s delegation to the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders last month proposed a sped-up agreement. That proposal echoed a memorandum of understanding that collapsed days after the U.S. and Iran signed it in June.
The new proposal was rejected, but the two sides have remained in contact through mediation.
Rezaie also threatened 'cables, data centers, AI facilities and other sites in the region' if intense fighting breaks out again. The warning adds a new layer of risk to infrastructure that sits at the center of modern commerce and communications.
The Guard’s navy also warned that any ship on the Strait of Hormuz that turns off navigation and identification systems would be 'identified as hostile,' according to IRNA. Attacks on ships transiting the strait have increased since Iran’s proposal was rejected. One attack was reported Sunday.
The market has already voted on what this kind of threat means. Infrastructure that carries data and trade is not just strategic. It is economic leverage. When governments turn cables, terminals, and computing sites into targets, the taxpayer and the private sector both pay the price in higher risk, higher costs, and lower certainty.
Capital rewards clear rules. This does the opposite. It reminds investors that in the Middle East, security is still the first condition for free enterprise, digital growth, and stable margins.
