Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced its intention to target the server farms, office towers, and technological empires associated with major global tech firms.
The IRGC has specifically named 18 companies as ‘legitimate targets’: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, Oracle, IBM, Intel, Cisco, HP, Dell, Boeing, Tesla, GE, J.P. Morgan Chase, Spire Solution, and G42, an AI company based in the United Arab Emirates.
Employees have reportedly received orders to evacuate immediately, with residents living within a kilometer of these offices issued the same warning.
A statement attributed to the IRGC, originally written in Farsi, reportedly declared: “We will target American tech companies for every assassination in Iran… You have ignored our repeated warnings to cease terrorist operations. Henceforth, the primary institutions effective in terrorist operations will be our legitimate targets.”
Iran justifies its stance by asserting that these are not merely technology companies, but rather form the invisible backbone of a war being waged against it. Several examples are cited to support this claim:
- Amazon and Google hold a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.
- Microsoft grants Israel unlimited access to its artificial intelligence infrastructure.
- The CEO of Palantir has openly boasted about his company’s role in military targeting.
- Oracle recently secured an $88 million contract with the U.S. Air Force.
The IRGC has previously demonstrated its willingness to act on threats, having reportedly struck three Amazon data centers across the UAE and Bahrain in the early days of the conflict. Despite these severe warnings, none of the 18 named companies have issued public statements. The reported deadline for potential action is today, April 1st.