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Only our navy and Israel's has subs that could have cut the cables. Is this a prelude to an attack by either us or Israel on Iran, or is it a big time intimidation shot across Iran's bow

What an idiot. There are dozens of nations with the ability to cut cables underwater intentionally, and there's 45-50 or more a year cut by accident just in the Atlantic every year.

What's really funny, is if there was going to be war, the last thing the US or Israel wants is any communications involving Iran to be cut - they want to be listening in on those communications or tapping them as they were.

What an idiot. There are dozens of nations with the ability to cut cables underwater intentionally, and there's 45-50 or more a year cut by accident just in the Atlantic every year.

What's really funny, is if there was going to be war, the last thing the US or Israel wants is any communications involving Iran to be cut - they want to be listening in on those communications or tapping them as they were.

Bingo!

All it takes is a little bit of Internet research and thinking to debunk the article's conclusions.

Lol, aside from that, cables are not the only mode of accessing the internet.

Besides, I think Iran’s mullah’s would have desired this situation... they have been fighting the internet for a long time now. No more news leaks out of Iran...

As for terrorists... well the telephone is always there, and so are crypted messages.

And one interesting tid-bit: Over 50 submarine cables snapped in the Atlantic during 2006-07 (Engadget.com).

I have to disagree with you. There is much more going on than most obviously can't grasp.

Most likely the cables were cut to force traffic through a more friendly route that could trap and read the data.

Or (more likely) while the cables were dead, a tap or transparent bridge was being installed [think Navy Seals] in another section. The tap theory sounds more plausible than the bridge, because even though it is undetectable, if the bridge goes down, it becomes immediately obvious. A tap just passively views the traffic but the downside is, you cannot invisibly manipulate the data like you can with a transparent bridge.

It seems like it'd be a lot easier to install a tap or transparent bridge (or both) , if the line is dead.

Another thing - when the three or four fibers were cut there was a lot of congestion when the traffic was routed around it. So it wouldn't be unexpected that those other routes would shut down momentarily from the surge in traffic. At least for the two minutes it would take to install taps on those.