By Cris Tolomia
Publication Date: 2026-04-01 13:21:00
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has named 18 U.S. technology and defense companies — including Nvidia $NVDA, Apple $AAPL, Microsoft $MSFT, Google $GOOGL, and Meta $META — as “legitimate targets” for attack at their Middle East facilities, setting a deadline of 8 p.m. Tehran time (12:30 p.m. E.T.) on Wednesday to begin strikes.
The IRGC issued the threat through an IRGC-affiliated Telegram channel and semi-official Tasnim news agency, warning that the companies were being targeted in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli assassinations of Iranian leaders. “From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,” the IRGC said.
The full list of companies named by the IRGC includes Cisco $CSCO, HP $HPQ, Intel $INTC, Oracle $ORCL, IBM $IBM, Dell $DELL, Palantir $PLTR, JPMorgan $JPM Chase, Tesla $TSLA, GE, and Boeing $BA. Two companies based in the United Arab Emirates were also listed: Abu Dhabi’s AI firm G42 and Dubai’s cybersecurity company Spire Solutions.
The IRGC directed employees at all the firms to leave their workplaces immediately and called for an evacuation of residents who live within one kilometer of those companies’ facilities across the region. The advisory indicated that the intended targets are the companies’ infrastructure across the Middle East, rather than facilities inside the U.S.
The IRGC said the companies were designated because of their alleged role in enabling the killings of Iranian leaders, including…
