According to Euronews, the Iranian news agency Tasnim has presented a list of about 30 facilities of major IT companies in the Middle East, characterizing them as "hostile tech infrastructure." This statement may indicate the possibility of future attacks on American IT giants, given the escalating tensions between Iran and the U.S.
According to Tasnim, the list includes companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, NVIDIA, IBM, and Palantir, which are located in various regions of the Middle East. The agency specifies that these locations are marked as "new targets" for Iran.
Some of the listed facilities are located in Dubai (UAE) and Tel Aviv (Israel). In Tel Aviv, the list includes the offices of Amazon and Microsoft, as well as the headquarters of Palantir and the engineering center of NVIDIA.
The main reason for the selection of most facilities was their involvement in the development of artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies, which are coordinated in the Middle East.
Requests for comments were sent to Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Palantir, but no response had been received by the time of publication.
Two Amazon data centers in the UAE, also mentioned in the list of targets, were struck on March 1. A third data center in Bahrain was damaged by debris falling from another strike location.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) previously claimed responsibility for these attacks, stating that they were aimed at identifying the role of these centers in supporting military and intelligence activities of the adversary.
The selection of offices is linked to their military connections
According to Tasnim, four offices of Google, IBM, and Oracle in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi were highlighted due to their alleged role in providing infrastructure for "military structures."
In 2021, Amazon and Alphabet (Google's parent company) received a $1.2 billion contract from the Israeli government to participate in the Nimbus project, which provided Israel with "basic technological infrastructure," as stated in a report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
The translated list of facilities mentioned in Tasnim's publication on social media. Euronews
Albanese's report also claims that companies like Microsoft provide Israel with "broad access" to their cloud technologies and AI systems.
Additionally, the document mentions that IBM trained Israeli military and intelligence services, and there are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Palantir supplied technologies for automated data analysis and target list creation. Oracle is not mentioned in this context; however, The Middle East Monitor reported on the company's executives' desire to strengthen "love for Israel" in American culture.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense also signed an $88 million contract with Oracle to integrate its cloud technologies with the U.S. Air Force.
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