The Iranian agency Tasnim published a list of approximately 30 facilities of major IT companies in the Middle East as 'hostile tech infrastructure,' indicating that they may become the next targets.
Iran may strike against American IT giants amid the ongoing escalation of tensions with the U.S., reports the Iranian news agency Tasnim, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The agency reported on X that the assets of companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, NVIDIA, IBM, and Palantir, located in approximately 30 locations across the Middle East, have become 'new targets in the region' for Iran. The statement claims that these facilities have been designated as 'hostile technological infrastructure.'
Several sites pointed out by Tasnim are located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Tel Aviv, Israel. In Tel Aviv, the list includes the headquarters of defense technology company Palantir, as well as the offices of Amazon and Microsoft, and the engineering design center of Nvidia.
According to the list, most of the sites were chosen due to their involvement in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems or because they coordinate cloud computing services across the Middle East.
Euronews Next reached out to Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Palantir for comments, but had not received a response by the time of publication.
Two Amazon data centers in the UAE, also included in the target list, were struck on March 1. A third data center in Bahrain was damaged after debris fell on it from another strike location.
Previously, the IRGC claimed responsibility for these attacks, stating to state media that their aim was to identify the role of these centers in supporting military and intelligence activities against the enemy.
Offices Selected Due to Military Connections
According to the publication, four offices of Oracle, IBM, and Google in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi are singled out as they allegedly provide infrastructure to 'military structures.'
In 2021, Amazon and Alphabet, Google's parent company, received (source in English) a $1.2 billion (1 billion euros) contract from the Israeli government to participate in the Nimbus project, which provided Israel with 'basic technological infrastructure,' according to a report (source in English) by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, published in 2025. The Albanese report notes that these companies and Microsoft provide Israel with 'virtually ubiquitous, government-wide access to their cloud and AI technologies.'
The document also claims that IBM trained personnel from the Israeli military and intelligence services and that there are 'reasonable grounds' to believe that Palantir supplied the Israeli government with technologies for automated predictive policing analysis to process data and compile target lists in Palestine.
Oracle is not mentioned in the Albanese report. However, the research media organization The Middle East Monitor reported that company executives sought to cement 'love for Israel' in American culture.
The U.S. Department of Defense also recently awarded the company a contract worth $88 million (74.4 million euros) to integrate (source in English) its cloud computing software with the U.S. Air Force.
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