The IRGC said it will target 18 tech firms, including Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, in retaliation “for every assassination in Iran” starting on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Tehran time (12:30 p.m. E.T.). The IRGC’s statement was released by semi-official, IRGC-linked Tasnim news agency.
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The IRGC added that employees of these firms should leave their workplaces immediately and residents “in all countries in the region” should evacuate from a one-kilometer radius around these institutions. The advisory suggests that the IRGC’s targets may include the infrastructure of these tech firms across the Middle East but not necessarily in the U.S.
TIME has reached out to the companies on the list for comment.
The IRGC’s threat comes as Trump has issued mixed messages on the future of the conflict. The U.S. President suggested he would end the broadly unpopular war on Iran in two to three weeks amid soaring oil and gas prices. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the “finish line” in the war is near. Trump has repeatedly said he is in talks with Iranian leaders aimed at ending the war. He also reportedly suggested that the war could end even if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy corridor that Iran has effectively closed since the war began.
“We do not have any faith that negotiations with the U.S. will yield any results. The trust level is at zero,” Araghchi said. “We don’t see honesty.”
But the U.S. and Israel have also indicated in the past week that they would scale up their attacks on Iran, while U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that the U.S. would continue ‘negotiating with bombs” while working out a deal. While Iran attacking U.S. firms would mark an escalation in the war, the conflict has already broadened beyond military targets after all parties appear to have targeted civilian sites and business infrastructure.
Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field. Iranian authorities also alleged that the U.S. and Israel have bombed civilian facilities and commercial infrastructure across Iran, including a pharmaceutical company in Tehran, steel factories in Isfahan, and a passenger pier in Bandar Abbas.
Some American companies have already asked employees at offices in Gulf countries to work remotely or limit travel. On March 3, Iranian drone strikes disrupted power to Amazon Web Services cloud facilities in the U.A.E. and Bahrain.
Last month, Iran said it will target American and Israeli economic interests and political centers in the region in retaliation for an alleged Israeli strike on a bank building in Tehran and other attacks. Iranian state-linked media reportedly said that the scope of Iran’s “legitimate targets” could expand to include offices and infrastructure for cloud-based services of American companies with links to Israel, including Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia, and Oracle.
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