IRGC Announces Imminent Attacks on Over a Dozen U.S. Companies Across the Middle East

On Tuesday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a formal public warning that it will launch a coordinated campaign of attacks targeting more than a dozen U.S.-based firms operating across the Middle East, set to begin Wednesday. The action is framed as retaliation for the deaths of Iranian civilians and citizens in the ongoing active conflict involving the United States and Israel.

Among the major companies named on the IRGC’s target list are global tech and aerospace giants including Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Tesla, and Boeing. The IRGC accuses these firms of directly enabling U.S. military targeting operations against Iranian interests. The group also issued two urgent public advisories: it called on all employees of the targeted U.S. companies to evacuate affected locations immediately, and urged civilian populations across the region to avoid properties connected to these firms ahead of the planned strikes.

The Tuesday warning, published to the IRGC’s official Telegram channel, expands a growing campaign of threats Iran has leveled against U.S.-owned commercial infrastructure dating back to the first joint U.S.-Israeli strike on Tehran launched February 28. The first publicly confirmed attack on U.S.-owned hyperscale cloud infrastructure occurred on March 1, when Iranian drones struck three Amazon Web Services data centers across the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, leaving at least one facility heavily damaged. The attack took out redundant backup systems designed to prevent service outages, triggering widespread crashes of banking platforms, payment processors, and consumer services across the region.

Earlier this month, the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency published a public roster of 29 regional offices and data centers operated by major U.S. firms including Amazon, Google, IBM, Nvidia, and Palantir, repeating the core accusation that these companies support U.S. military and intelligence activities in the Middle East.

In its latest Telegram post, the IRGC confirmed that attacks on the newly targeted firms should be expected to begin after 8 p.m. Tehran time on April 1.

Most of the companies named in Tuesday’s IRGC announcement did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. Google, Microsoft, and JPMorgan have formally declined to comment on the threats.

Billions of dollars in U.S. technology investment and commercial infrastructure are tied to the Gulf region, where major American tech giants have made large bets to position the area as the next global hub for artificial intelligence development.

The IRGC classifies these civilian hardware and software providers as “legitimate military targets,” holding them responsible for supplying technology that enabled the joint U.S.-Israeli strike that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the start of the current war. The threats also highlight the U.S. Defense Department’s heavy reliance on commercial vendors that maintain active operations across the region. For example, Palantir — the defense contractor that builds core data architecture for Project Maven, the Pentagon’s AI program that processes drone and satellite imagery to identify airstrike targets — operates a permanent corporate office in Abu Dhabi.

Throughout March, the U.S. military conducted a bombing campaign targeting IRGC drone networks required to carry out cross-region attacks, and U.S. Central Command recently released public footage of airstrikes destroying Iranian mobile drone launchers. The pace of U.S. aerial operations has slowed in recent days, however, as Washington temporarily paused strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure to explore potential peace negotiations with Tehran. Amid shifting military priorities, Pentagon officials are reportedly considering whether to deploy up to 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East to expand U.S. operational options ahead of a possible ground invasion.

In the month following Khamenei’s assassination, approximately 2,000 Iranians have been killed, alongside at least 13 U.S. service members. The conflict has spread across the broader Middle East, with Iranian retaliatory strikes hitting targets in Israel, Gulf states, and Iraq. The Strait of Hormuz — a critical global shipping route running between Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman — has remained effectively closed for weeks due to Iranian threats, disrupting global shipments of oil and other key goods.

Additional reporting by Dana Alomar and Carla Sertin.