Iran's threatening message to US companies in the Middle East, where tech giants are present
Iran's Revolutionary Guards threatened on Monday to hit American companies in the Middle East and urged the employees of the companies in question to leave these locations, reports The Guardian.
The Revolutionary Guards claim that these companies will be targeted “soon”.
“Employees of American companies (…) are asked to leave these areas immediately. These areas will soon be targeted by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the guards said in a statement on their official website, Sepah News.
It is unclear at the moment which companies are specifically targeted by the message, but the Tasnim news agency had published a list of potential targets in the sector last week on Telegram, including the Gulf offices of some American giants in the technology sector such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia in the Gulf countries.
The attacks launched by Iranian forces on Amazon assets in the context of the conflict in the Middle East also brought what is believed to be a first in the history of wars – strikes against commercial data centers.
The Guardian wrote on March 7 that they temporarily left millions of people in cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi unable to pay for a taxi, order food or check their bank accounts on mobile apps.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is one of the most powerful organizations in Iran, perceived as the main defender of the 1979 Revolution, and provides a critical link between Tehran and militant groups opposed to the United States and Israel. The IRGC supports such structures in countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen, an “axis of resistance” that aims to counter Western influence and Israeli influence, the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations wrote in a January analysis.
