The ongoing conflict in the Middle East—involving the US, Israel, and Iran—now appears to be taking a dangerous turn. Iran has released a new list that suggests it intends to target the offices of major US technology companies—such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle and Palantir—which are located in Israel, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other parts of the Middle East. After this list came out, these companies have now been put on high alert.
Tasnim, a news agency associated with Iran, has recently published this list. It says that Iran will now target the offices and infrastructure of America’s big technology companies. Israel has used technology provided by these companies for its military operations; This is the reason why these companies have now come on the hit list of Iran.
The offices and cloud-service infrastructure highlighted in this list are spread across several cities in Israel as well as some Gulf countries. According to a statement by Tasnim News Agency, the conflict is now taking the form of a war focused on infrastructure, which has significantly expanded the scope of Iran’s potential targets.
Amazon’s data center has already been attacked
According to reports over the past week, Iranian drones attacked an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Bahrain and targeted two more AWS infrastructure sites in the United Arab Emirates. These attacks resulted in fires, disruptions in services, and emergency shutdowns. According to a CNN report, Iran’s state media claimed that these data centers had played a role in US and Israel’s military operations, which is why they were targeted.