A day after an Amazon facility in Bahrain was targeted, Iran warned on Friday that all ICT companies in the region remain a targetHe added: “If the United States continues its threats regarding Iranian power plant facilities, the following retaliatory measures will be taken immediately.
“All power plants, energy infrastructure, information technology and communications belonging to the Zionist regime, and all similar companies in the region that have American shareholders, will face complete and complete annihilation,” the spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbia headquarters warned in a video message.The video also showed the following text: “Nothing is hidden from our eyes, even though it is hidden by Google.” She then pointed to the Stargate site in the United Arab Emirates, described as an AI-powered computing cluster, and showed a photo of the American CEOs of the project’s key partner companies, including Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs.
A Financial Times report on Thursday said that Amazon’s cloud operations in Bahrain were damaged after an Iranian strike. The Bahraini Ministry of Interior reportedly said that civil defense teams “are extinguishing a fire in a facility belonging to a company as a result of the Iranian aggression.”This development comes in the wake of previous threats by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which warned against targeting American companies operating in the Middle East, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Meta.
The warning, similar to one issued in March, was directed at 18 US companies, including technology and finance companies.In a message posted on Telegram, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard accused these companies of acting as spies for the US government and helping it carry out strikes. She said: “Since the main element in designing and tracking terrorist targets are American ICT and artificial intelligence companies, from now on the main institutions effective in terrorist operations will be our legitimate targets.”Last month, Amazon confirmed that its cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), faced an outage in Bahrain due to the conflict.