March 13, 2026 Iran has identified offices and infrastructure linked to major U.S. technology companies as potential targets as tensions expand into what officials describe as an “infrastructure war.” The list, published by Iran’s Tasnim news agency, includes companies such as Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia and Oracle, with facilities located in Persian Gulf countries and Israel.
The announcement comes as Iranian officials signal that economic and technology infrastructure tied to the United States could be targeted in response to escalating regional conflict. Tasnim, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, described the listed corporate infrastructure as “Iran’s new targets.”
“As the scope of the regional war expands to infrastructure war, the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets expands,” Tasnim said.
Iranian officials also linked the move to a reported Israeli attack on a bank branch in Tehran. Iran’s state broadcaster said that by targeting financial institutions, “the enemy” had effectively expanded the categories of infrastructure considered legitimate military targets.
A spokesperson for Khatam Al Anbiya Headquarters, a construction and engineering organization linked to the IRGC, said the situation had left Iran free to target “economic centres and banks belonging to the United States and the Zionist regime in the region.”
Technology infrastructure has already been affected by the conflict. Iranian strikes on Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain caused outages affecting banking systems, payment platforms and enterprise services across the region.
The developments raise concerns for technology companies expanding cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in the Middle East. Several major firms have announced large-scale investments in the region’s digital infrastructure in recent years.
For example, OpenAI is developing a large AI computing campus in the United Arab Emirates with support from partners including Oracle, Nvidia and Cisco. Microsoft has also reported plans to invest heavily in regional infrastructure over the coming years.
