Iran threatens US tech companies attacked

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned it will target American technology companies in the Middle East as of April 1.

The list of targets includes 17 American companies: Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, J.P. Morgan Chase, Tesla, GE, Spire Solution, Boeing, according to a Telegram post from the IRGC.

The Emirati company G42 is also listed.

American information and artificial intelligence (AI) companies are "the main element" in designing and tracking the "terrorist operations" that the United States has conducted against Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said.

"We will target American technology companies for every assassination in Iran," the post, originally written in Farsi, reads.

"You ignored our repeated warnings about the need to stop terrorist operations ... from now on the main institutions effective in terrorist operations will be our legitimate targets," it added.

Tech employees are to leave their workplaces "immediately to save their lives," the IRGC said.

Euronews Next contacted the 18 companies listed in this latest IRGC message but did not receive an immediate reply.