IRGC Threatens Apple, Google, Microsoft and Tesla Across Gulf

Defence affairs - Def-Geopolitics

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to attack the Gulf operations of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Boeing and 13 other firms from 8pm Tehran time, signalling an unprecedented expansion of the Iran-US-Israel conflict into commercial data centres, artificial-intelligence hubs and regional technology infrastructure.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to begin attacking the Middle Eastern operations of 18 American and Gulf technology companies from 8pm Tehran time on April 1, transforming the regional conflict into a direct confrontation against commercial technological infrastructure.

The warning immediately elevated the risk profile of every American-operated data centre, regional headquarters, cloud computing hub and artificial-intelligence research facility located across the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Israel.

By explicitly naming Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Boeing and Tesla, Tehran signalled that future retaliation would no longer remain confined to military bases, oil terminals or air-defence networks.

The statement, distributed through IRGC-linked channels, declared that “for every assassination and terrorist act in Iran, one facility or unit belonging to these companies will face destruction.”

The IRGC simultaneously warned employees to immediately distance themselves from their workplaces and urged residents living within one kilometre of targeted facilities to evacuate before tomorrow night.

Such language marked the first time during the 2026 Iran-United States-Israel confrontation that Tehran publicly threatened mass-casualty attacks against multinational civilian technology infrastructure throughout the Gulf.

The threat followed repeated Iranian accusations that American and Israeli intelligence agencies had used artificial intelligence, cloud computing and surveillance technologies to identify and assassinate senior Iranian commanders.