Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

ElevenLathe

Has anyone else been having major reliability issues in me-south-1 since the attacks there? I've had to field several inquiries at work where the answer seems to be "sorry, there's a war on -- pick a different region".

PHGamer

as if they weren't targeting anything valuable already.

pm90

The problem with accepting military work is that foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target.

A_D_E_P_T

Do any of those US tech companies have large manufacturing footprints in the region? Intel has a couple of fabs in Israel, but presumably those are on the smaller side? Nvidia's work in the region is mostly R&D, isn't it? In any case, though manufacturing may not be too badly affected, if the Iranians can pull this off, they would discourage further investment in Israel and raise the economic costs of the war for the US, which would be an geostrategic Iranian win of the "low hanging fruit" variety.

sheikhnbake

> The statement named Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solution, G42 and Boeing https://www.intellinews.com/irgc-threatens-to-strike-us-tech...

blhcar

Better for public relations than hitting oil and gas, if they manage no casualties. I'm sure some people will paraphrase Radoslav Sikorski: "Thank you, Iran!"

VirusNewbie

WTF, i'm going to get paged because some Iranian dude wants to take out a fiber line?

ThePowerOfDirge

They hardly pay taxes in the U.S. so they deserve no protection. In fact, I'd encourage Iran to attack them. You didn't pay? You're delinquent? No I will not protect you, ya gotta pay.

josefritzishere

It's been said elsewhere but... when you kick a hornets nest, it's the hornets who decide when that fight is over.

h4kunamata

Good! The world is sick of US tech companies causing harm, and yet the US gets mad when China does the same. This is also exposing how in 2026, companies do not have backup plans or high availability for the matter. The AWS datacenter they took down recently, many services stopped working altogether. You would expect companies to have some fallback plan or something, even if running slower due to latency instead of going offline entirely. I am pretty sure more people are supporting Iran to take down US techs datacenters. US techs for a long time has become the biggest evil within our digital world. Thankfully, Steam alone made people see Linux as a better alternative to Windows, so did other open-source projects. Visa/MasterCard being ditched, Social Media and other techs like Google going under also. What a beatufil transition to witness.

spaghetdefects

If Iran bombs Palantir, they're going to be winning the PR war even more than they already are. In fact it would be a huge service to US citizens and people around the globe to eliminate this terroristic spy operation. Oracle as well would be helpful as Larry Ellison has create an extremely concerning consolidation of MSM in the US.