Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) labeled U.S. and Israeli military operations as "terror operations" and warned of attacks on global information and communications technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) giants that cooperated with them.
According to state broadcaster IRIB on the 31st (local time), the Revolutionary Guard said in a statement, "Behind the terror attacks that killed Iranian citizens are U.S. ICT and AI corporations that design and track terror targets." It added, "Despite repeated warnings, the acts of terror have not stopped," declaring, "From now on, major institutions involved in terror operations will be our legitimate strike targets."
It then named 18 corporations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Intel, HP, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Nvidia, Palantir, Cisco, Boeing, Tesla, GE, J.P. Morgan, G42 and Spire Solutions, as targets for retaliation.
The Revolutionary Guard said, "These corporations must be prepared for the destruction of related facilities commensurate with any acts of terror occurring in Iran, starting at 8 p.m. on Apr. 1 Tehran time (1:30 a.m. on the 2nd Korea time)." It also advised employees of these corporations to leave their business sites immediately and warned residents within 1 km of their business sites to evacuate.
The Iranian military also said in a separate statement that, in retaliation for Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran's infrastructure, it carried out drone strikes at dawn on Siemens' and AT&T's communications and industrial centers near Israel's Ben Gurion Airport and in Haifa.
The statement claimed, "The Siemens industrial software center is responsible for optimizing the Israeli military's weapons production lines and designing military systems using advanced technologies such as AI and industrial automation." It added that AT&T's communications center in Haifa is a hub that supports advanced networking technologies, cloud computing and AI for the Israeli military.