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to execute trades, thereby thwarting the establishment of an alternative to dollar-denominated oil sales. In fact, Iran suffered very little from the outages, which primarily affected
America's allies in the region (see 'Effects' above). Bloggers have also suggested that the cable disruptions were a
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On Monday, 18 February, the ] said that the damage could have been an act of sabotage. The ] agency's head of development, ] was quoted, "We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables
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Alexandria. The Egyptian Maritime Transport Ministry reviewed one day of complete video footage beginning 12 hours before and through 12 hours after the service disruption, concluding the cause of damage was not surface craft as no ships were traced sailing through the area of the alleged wire
950:". Given the potential economic damage of euro-denominated oil sales in the context of on-going dollar deflation, as well as the large number of cables which appear to have been disrupted or damaged, Marketwatch's John Dvorak has written that the U.S. can expect to be blamed for the disruptions.
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alone last year". While a cut in a cable crossing the
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issued a press release stating that the FLAG Telecom,
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1648:"Third Internet Cable cut — Tehran 100% Outage"
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898:According to Stephen Beckert, a senior analyst at
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1174:Fried, Malcolm; Klemming, Lars (2008-12-19).
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