Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps just announced it is going after server farms, office towers, and the tech empires behind them.
The IRGC has 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 UAE-based AI firm G42.
Employees have been told to evacuate immediately. Residents within a kilometer of any of these offices? Same warning.
"We will target American technology companies for every assassination in Iran, reads " a post on Telegram from the IRGC, originally written in Farsi.
"You ignored our repeated warnings about the need to stop terrorist operations. From now on the main institutions effective in terrorist operations will be our legitimate targets."
Iran's argument: these aren't just tech companies, they're the invisible backbone of the war being waged against it. To give some examples:
Amazon and Google hold a $1.2 billion cloud contract with the Israeli government.
Microsoft grants Israel sweeping access to its AI infrastructure.
Palantir's CEO has openly boasted about the company's role in military targeting.
Oracle just landed an $88 million US Air Force deal.
And Iran has already proven it acts on its threats, striking three Amazon data centers across the UAE and Bahrain in the first days of the conflict. Not one of the 18 companies has said a word publicly. However, the deadline is today, April 1.