Iran threatens American giants. Nvidia, Google and Amazon are on the list

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on Saturday on the X platform that if his country's energy installations are fired upon, Iranian armed forces will attack American companies in the region and enterprises in which the United States has shares, the AFP agency reported.

“Iran will respond to any attack on its energy facilities,” the minister wrote after US airstrikes on military facilities on Khark Island, an Iranian oil hub.

“The attack on Khark Island was carried out from the territory of neighboring countries. The United States is firing missiles from a neighboring country using HIMARS launchers,” said the Iranian minister, quoted by Iran International. “We will certainly respond to these attacks,” he stressed.

According to the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington on its website, there are over 1.5 thousand companies operating in the UAE. companies from the United States. This includes: Microsoft, Bank of America, Cleveland Clinic, Nvidia, Northrop Grumman, Amazon, Google and Mastercard.

Earlier, US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported that US forces struck more than 90 military targets on Khark Island. “The attack destroyed sea mine depots, underground missile depots and many other military facilities,” the command said, emphasizing that it did not attack oil infrastructure.

On Saturday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that it had attacked branches of American banks in the Persian Gulf countries, Reuters reported. This was in retaliation for the shelling of Iranian banks. (PAP)

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