Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants (The Register)

[usonian]

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/iran_threatens_us_tech_companies/

Note: locations in Bahrain, Israel, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

Iran has reportedly designated Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir facilities as legitimate targets of retaliatory strikes, according to an Al Jazeera report citing Iran’s state-affiliated Tasnim news agency.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has pinpointed 29 locations in Bahrain, Israel, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates that house offices, datacenters, and research facilities that Iran has set its sights on destroying, according to Tasnim’s Telegram channel.

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The list was presented under the title “Iran’s New Targets.” It included five Amazon facilities, five Microsoft, six IBM, three Palantir, four Google, three Nvidia, and three Oracle buildings.

The targets, described as the “enemy’s technology infrastructure,” were presented in three slides on Telegram and included the name of the vendor, the nature of the facility, the location, as well as a brief description of their work..

Telegram snaps, with icons of the targets.

[newdeal2]

1. They all got in bed with Trump

Guess the billionaire geniuses never expected things to go to shit, huh.

[LearnedHand]

2. There's something a little delicious about them targeting truly evil companies

Now I’m going to sit in time out.

[yaesu]

3. When you are up against a wall with nothing to lose, something the fascists in the US will find out when they pass

their voter suppression bill, it won't be pretty.