‘Total destruction of Microsoft, Nvidia…’: Iran warns US after Trump threatens to attack bridges, power plants

Iran warned on Friday that all ICT companies in the region had been targeted, a day after a reported attack on an Amazon facility in Bahrain“If the United States continues to issue threats against Iran’s nuclear power plant facilities, the following retaliatory measures should be taken immediately. All power plants, energy infrastructure, information and communications technologies of the Zionist regime, as well as all similar companies in the region with American shareholders, will face complete and utter destruction. “Iran headquarters spokesman Hatam Anbia warned in the video.The video also shows the text: “Although hidden by Google, nothing is hidden from our sight.” It then identifies the location of Stargate in the UAE, described as an artificial intelligence computing cluster, and shows photos of U.S. CEOs of key partner companies in the project, including Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs.The Financial Times reported on Thursday that Amazon’s cloud operations in Bahrain were damaged after the Iranian attack. Bahrain’s interior ministry reportedly said civil defense teams were “fighting a fire that broke out at a company’s facility as a result of Iranian aggression.”Previously, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards had issued threats, warning that it was targeting American companies operating in the Middle East, including Microsoft, Apple, Google and Meta. The warning is similar to one issued in March and targeted 18 U.S. companies, including technology and financial firms.In messages posted on Telegram, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accused the companies of acting as spies for the U.S. government and helping it carry out attacks. The statement said, “Since the main factors in designing and tracking terrorist targets are American information communication technology and artificial intelligence companies… from now on, the main institutions that effectively carry out terrorist operations will become our legitimate targets.”Last month, Amazon confirmed that its cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) was facing outages in Bahrain due to the conflict.