Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on March 31 branded recent U.S. and Israeli military operations as “terror operations” and warned it would target major international ICT and AI firms it says cooperated with those strikes.
Speaking on state broadcaster IRIB, the IRGC accused U.S. ICT and AI companies of designing and tracking targets linked to the attack that killed Iranian citizens.
The IRGC said repeated warnings failed to stop the attacks and declared that institutions involved in those operations would be treated as legitimate military targets.
It listed 18 companies as potential retaliation targets: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Intel Corporation, HP, Oracle Corporation, IBM, Dell, NVIDIA, Palantir, Cisco, Boeing, Tesla, GE, J.P. Morgan, G42 and Spire Solutions.
The IRGC warned those firms to expect the destruction of related facilities in Iran in response to any terror acts beginning at 8 p.m. Tehran time on April 1 (1:30 a.m. KST on April 2; 12:30 p.m. ET on April 1).
It urged employees to leave company worksites immediately and warned residents living within 1 km (about 0.62 miles) of those sites to evacuate.
Separately, the Iranian military said it launched drone strikes early that morning near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport and struck communications and industrial centers belonging to Siemens and AT&T in Haifa, saying the actions were retaliation for Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iranian infrastructure.
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