Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has named 18 major US tech companies located in the Middle East as "legitimate targets."

In a post on X, Tasnim News Agency, a news agency associated with the IRGC, said: "IRGC issued a warning to the US gov't & major tech firms, declaring them legitimate military targets in response to terror attacks that killed Iranians, orchestrated with US-Israeli intelligence support."

The companies included are Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Google, Dell, Tesla, General Electric, HP, Apple, IBM, Nvidia, Spire Solutions, Oracle, Intel, Nvidia, Meta, Palatir, JPMorgan, and Boeing.

Microsoft, Google, and Oracle all operate data centers in the region.

According to a report from The Information, the threats are in retaliation for US efforts to kill the Iranian leadership. The IRGC said that strikes could begin today, April 1. Microsoft has already experienced damage to a cloud computing facility in the area. The company did not provide a comment to The Information.

On March 22, the IRGC threatened to target US and Israel‑linked energy and IT infrastructure in the Middle East, should its power plants be attacked. The war has already seen several attacks on Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, with two hit by drone strikes in the UAE and a third damaged in Bahrain in early March.

AWS later sent an email to customers stating that it was "waiving all usage-related charges in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region for March 2026. This waiver applies automatically to your account(s), and no action is required from you," as per a report from The Register, which noted that it was not just waiving the bills, but instead wiping all billing and inventory data. AWS has since told DCD that the data was not in fact deleted and is available on customer request.

It is not only the IRGC that has targeted data centers. The US and Israel also bombed two data centers in Iran.

Internet services have also been significantly impacted in Iran, with the government-imposed communications shutdown still being enforced. Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis, Kentik, noted on LinkedIn yesterday that the Internet blackout entered its 32nd straight day.