By Kaustubh Bagalkote
Publication Date: 2026-03-12 12:30:00
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has stepped up its rhetoric.
According to a report by Al Jazeera on Wednesday, the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency published a list naming offices with ties to several major US technology companies as potential targets.
The list names institutions that are linked to Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp., Palantir Technologies Inc., International Business Machines Corp., Nvidia Corp. And Oracle Corp.which they described as “Iran’s new targets.”
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Why these tech companies were named
Tasnim described that the companies’ technology would be used for military applications. “As the scope of the regional war expands to include an infrastructure war, the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets also expands,” the agency said.
The listed infrastructure focuses on cloud-based services. The war entered its 12th day on Wednesday as Iran claimed US and Israeli forces have since bombed nearly 10,000 civilian sites and killed more than 1,300 civilians…