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by Julia Shapero - 03/31/26 12:12 PM ET

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tuesday that it plans to target major U.S. technology companies across the Middle East, including Apple, Microsoft and Google, on Wednesday amid the ongoing war.

In a statement published by Sepah News, the IRGC’s official news outlet, the military arm named 18 companies that it accused of being involved in planning and tracking targets for U.S. attacks.

This included Meta, Nvidia, Oracle, Tesla, HP, Intel and IBM. The only non-U.S. company on the list appears to be the United Arab Emirates’s (UAE) AI champion G42.

The IRGC advised employees to leave their workplaces immediately, noting that it planned to begin targeting these firms Wednesday at 8 p.m. local time.

Iran has previously listed American tech companies as potential targets amid the conflict. In early March, Iranian drones struck and damaged several Amazon data centers in the UAE and Bahrain.

As tech firms and infrastructure become targets, it has increasingly raised concerns about large-scale AI investments in the region.

Countries including the UAE and Saudi Arabia have attracted significant AI spending, particularly over the past year, as President Trump has embraced the Middle East as a key partner in the AI race against China.

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