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Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East
- ElevenLathe 6mo agoHas anyone else been having major reliability issues in me-south-1 since the attacks there? I've had to field several inquiries at work where the answer seems to be "sorry, there's a war on -- pick a different region".
- jprd 6mo agoYes. Both me-south-1 and me-central-1 have been _heavily_ impacted/disrupted for nearly a month now due to drone strikes on infra.
- sunaookami 6mo agoRelated: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/aws_would_prefer_to_forget/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/aws_would_prefer_to_f... >"AWS is waiving all usage-related charges in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region for March 2026. This waiver applies automatically to your account(s), and no action is required from you."
- PHGamer 6mo agoas if they weren't targeting anything valuable already.
- foragerdev 6mo agoas if they started the war, as if they killed their leaders themselves. Ofc they are being boomed in the desert, have not lost anything. US and Isreal has the most valuable things or only them considered human beings? Oh, rest of the people living in the world, they should be grateful to US and Isreal to let them live.
- SirFatty 6mo ago[flagged]
- sheikhnbake 6mo agoThe iranian government/IRGC isn't innocent but remember that its the regular people, the working class of Iran that is actually suffering further because of hostilities initiated by US/Israel
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> remember that its the regular people, the working class of Iran that is actually suffering further because of hostilities initiated by US/Israel This is true of any war. That’s damning for the party that starts a war of choice. But it’s no vindication for the regime that’s built itself up as a regional pest, including sponsor of actual terrorism against ordinary people, for years.
- frm88 6mo agoYou realise that no vindication for the regime that’s built itself up as a regional pest, including sponsor of actual terrorism against ordinary people, for years. is a valid descriptor of the US as well?
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoAmerica hasn't really been a regional pest unless we expand the scope of region to cover two continents. Not until this administration. And the U.S. is not a systematic sponsor of terrorism the way Tehran has become. Even e.g. the Afghan Mujahideen wasn't known to target civilians the way Hamas and Hezbollah have been.
- frm88 6mo agoColombia and Nicaragua have joined the chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponsored_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...
- pm90 6mo agoThe problem with accepting military work is that foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target.
- laughing_man 6mo agoThe Iranians have considered anyone doing business with the Israelis a "legitimate military target" since 1979.
- Computer0 6mo ago[flagged]
- laughing_man 6mo agoSo you think a foreign distributer for some random Israeli agricultural product is a legitimate target? That's disturbing.
- kobalsky 6mo agoI mean during ww2 civilians and supply chains were bombed to hell and back. now this is a "small", "far away" war, so killing civilians isn't expected, but for them a supplier of agricultural products is feeding the soldiers that will be stomping their heads if this keeps escalating. I'm not justifying anyone here, I'm just pointing out how ridiculous it sounds when we try to define a set of rules to kill each other and then say they are violating them, when we know that the good guys bombed whole cities to the ground, and will bomb whole cities to the ground, when it matters. there's so much hate in the region that this stuff will only end one way, and I personally don't want to see Iran winning this, but let's call war by it's name.
- laughing_man 6mo agoHow should the Israelis be expected to respond if Iran starts deliberately killing large numbers of civilians? You only have to follow the laws of war if your enemy is making an attempt to follow them.
- A_D_E_P_T 6mo agoDo any of those US tech companies have large manufacturing footprints in the region? Intel has a couple of fabs in Israel, but presumably those are on the smaller side? Nvidia's work in the region is mostly R&D, isn't it? In any case, though manufacturing may not be too badly affected, if the Iranians can pull this off, they would discourage further investment in Israel and raise the economic costs of the war for the US, which would be an geostrategic Iranian win of the "low hanging fruit" variety.
- alephnerd 6mo ago> US tech companies have large manufacturing footprints in the region Yes in Israel and part of the West Bank (the Mellanox founder tried to expand Nvidia's footprint in the region - as in hiring in the West Bank and Gaza - until his daughter was murdered at Nova). Outside of Israel, not really excluding data centers which are leased. That said, most tech companies have already been operating in Israel for decades under constant barrages already (eg. Had a family friend who was working at the Intel fab when Hezbollah was attempting to shell it during the 2006 war and the AWS skyscraper was targeted by an ISIS suicide bomber 2 years ago but foiled). In most cases, we in the US were already being targeted by Iranian APTs before this conflict and before 2023. > if the Iranians can pull this off, they would discourage further investment in Israel For much of tech, the calculus hasn't changed for investing in Israel. It's hard to find similar ecosystems for cybersecurity, defense tech, chip design, and some aspects of material sciences. And those regions that are complementary (eg. Czechia, Poland, India), the companies are either Israeli operated or Israeli funded.
- Computer0 6mo ago[flagged]
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- gadilif 6mo agoEyal Waldman is an Israeli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyal_Waldman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyal_Waldman
- sheikhnbake 6mo ago> The statement named Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solution, G42 and Boeing https://www.intellinews.com/irgc-threatens-to-strike-us-tech-companies-in-retaliation-for-assassinations-434840/#google_vignette https://www.intellinews.com/irgc-threatens-to-strike-us-tech...
- alephnerd 6mo ago> G42 G42 isn't American - it's Emirati. But it doesn't matter. Iran is only burning additional bridges with it's neighbors which has only incentivized them to take a much more hardline stance against the Islamic Republic. The fact that they alienated Qatar last week is truly mindboggling though - it was QatarEnergy that was subsidizing NOIC and Qataris with clan ties in Iran like Saad al Kaabi who were some of the biggest proponents for Qatar-Iran normalization have been sidelined. It has also now aligned the Gulf States with Ukraine [0], and now reduces Iran to become a mere extension of Russia, and arguably converts this conflict into a second theatre of the Russia-Ukraine War, which in my opinion has become a de facto world war. [0] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/28/zelenskyy-signs-air-defence-deals-with-uae-qatar-on-gulf-tour https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/28/zelenskyy-signs-air...
- nullocator 6mo ago> The fact that they alienated Qatar last week is truly mindboggling though I mean Qatar did just give a really expensive plane to the guy who unilaterally assassinated the Iranian supreme leader and is bombing their country to smithereens.
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- seanmcdirmid 6mo agoDid Iran really have allies in Arab Sunni ruled countries though? Pretty much all of them already see non-Arab Shia Iran as an enemy, and have for a long time. The only real mystery is how the region hasn't imploded already with all the historical tension between these countries.
- blhcar 6mo agoBetter for public relations than hitting oil and gas, if they manage no casualties. I'm sure some people will paraphrase Radoslav Sikorski: "Thank you, Iran!"
- VirusNewbie 6mo agoWTF, i'm going to get paged because some Iranian dude wants to take out a fiber line?
- drekipus 6mo agoThey're defending themselves. If you don't want this, tell your government to put an end to the war
- Slapping5552 6mo agoLashing out against basically everyone is not "defending themselves" When my house gets vandalized by this neighborhood rascal, I don't defend myself by throwing rocks at my entire neighborhood
- whattheheckheck 6mo agoIt's strategic in these times where international law has been evidently not respected by the major powers
- spaghetdefects 6mo agoIran is attacking the military that's preemptively attacked them. It's the US and Israel that have placed antagonistic military installations throughout the Middle East.
- sph 6mo agoBoo woo, why should not expect to be bombed back when you're at war with someone?
- jhanschoo 6mo agoIt's so funny to me that you compare a decapitation strike with the stated aim of regime change to vandalism; I'd compare the actions taken to Iran in 2025 to vandalism over this.
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- ThePowerOfDirge 6mo agoThey hardly pay taxes in the U.S. so they deserve no protection. In fact, I'd encourage Iran to attack them. You didn't pay? You're delinquent? No I will not protect you, ya gotta pay.
- whattheheckheck 6mo agoThe us cant even protect its own military assets...
- spaghetdefects 6mo agoAlso, why are US corporations operating in Israel? I think Iran is justified in their actions but also feel it benefits us in the US to have US corporations hire here instead of in Israel. It also removes the moral hazard of having to work with an apartheid state engaged in a genocide.
- josefritzishere 6mo agoIt's been said elsewhere but... when you kick a hornets nest, it's the hornets who decide when that fight is over.
- mnmalst 6mo agoOr all hornets are dead.
- lenkite 6mo agoEven with nukes, you won't get rid of 90 million hornets in a mountainous and hilly nation.
- DoctorOetker 6mo agoThe remaining hornets would re-associate with other groups, like kurds, etc. and no longer consider themselves subjects of Iran.
- lenkite 6mo agoHah, wishful thinking that. If your family is wiped out by invaders, you will vow vengeance till either their death or yours.
- DoctorOetker 6mo agoIf that were true statistically speaking you'd see a lot more post-war violence, after vietnam war, Iraq war, ... In truth, the bereaved will surely be angry at the bombs dropped by party X, but at the same time understand the impatience of party X towards government Y that oppressed both you and your dead family. There is much more room for regret: regret of not openly supporting saner voices, regret of taking what seemed to be the least personally risky path, until the final conclusion proved otherwise... Allowing your government to rot to the core and pretending citizens do not carry any responsibility is what leads to things like Nazi germany, Iran, etc...
- h4kunamata 6mo agoGood! The world is sick of US tech companies causing harm, and yet the US gets mad when China does the same. This is also exposing how in 2026, companies do not have backup plans or high availability for the matter. The AWS datacenter they took down recently, many services stopped working altogether. You would expect companies to have some fallback plan or something, even if running slower due to latency instead of going offline entirely. I am pretty sure more people are supporting Iran to take down US techs datacenters. US techs for a long time has become the biggest evil within our digital world. Thankfully, Steam alone made people see Linux as a better alternative to Windows, so did other open-source projects. Visa/MasterCard being ditched, Social Media and other techs like Google going under also. What a beatufil transition to witness.
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- spaghetdefects 6mo agoIf Iran bombs Palantir, they're going to be winning the PR war even more than they already are. In fact it would be a huge service to US citizens and people around the globe to eliminate this terroristic spy operation. Oracle as well would be helpful as Larry Ellison has create an extremely concerning consolidation of MSM in the US.
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- Henchman21 6mo agoJust... what does it say about a person who reads LotR and then thinks "I'll name my company after a corrupted magical artifact"? The intent to do evil is right there in the name I think.
- nujabe 6mo agoThese are legitimate targets.
- totierne2 6mo agoAim aim aim..