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Iran could target American Big Tech as tensions with the United States continue to escalate, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim, which has ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The news agency wrote on X that assets of companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, NVIDIA, IBM, and Palantir in roughly 30 locations throughout the Middle East are Iran’s “new targets in the region.” The message claimed that these sites have been identified as “enemy technology infrastructure.”
Several locations highlighted by Tasnim are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and in Tel Aviv, Israel. In Tel Aviv, the list includes the main offices of defence technology company Palantir, as well as offices belonging to Amazon and Microsoft, along with Nvidia’s engineering and development centre.
According to the list, most locations were selected due to their involvement in developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems or because they coordinate cloud computing services across the Middle East.
Euronews Next contacted Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Palantir but did not receive immediate responses.
Two of Amazon’s data centres in the UAE, another target on the list, were hit on March 1. A third data centre in Bahrain was damaged after it was hit by falling debris from another attack site.
The IRGC previously claimed responsibility for the attacks, telling state media that the attacks were aimed at identifying the role of these centres in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities.
Offices targeted due to military links
Four offices belonging to Oracle, IBM, and Google in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi were singled out because they allegedly provide infrastructure for “military entities,” the post said.
Amazon and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, were awarded a $1.2 billion (€1 billion) contract in 2021 from the Israeli government to work on Project Nimbus, which provided Israel with “core tech infrastructure,” according to a 2025 report from UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine.
These companies and Microsoft grant Israel “virtually government-wide access to their cloud and AI technologies,” Albanese’s report read.
The report also claims that IBM has trained Israeli military and intelligence personnel and that there is “reasonable ground” to believe that Palantir provided automatic predictive policing technology to the Israeli government to process data and generate lists of targets in Palestine.
Oracle was not mentioned in Albanese’s report. However, media research organisation The Middle East Monitor reported that executives at the company pushed to embed a “love for Israel” in American culture.
The US Department of War also recently awarded the company an $88 million (€74.4 million) contract to integrate its cloud computing software with the US Air Force.