Google, Amazon in Middle East are ‘legitimate targets’: Iran’s new warfront to target US linked tech companies

As the Iran‑Israel‑US conflict continues into its second week, the war is increasingly spilling over into the digital and technology realm, with Tehran broadening its definition of legitimate targets to include American cloud and data infrastructure across the Middle East.

According to reports citing the IRGC‑affiliated Tasnim news agency, Iran has published what it calls a list of “Iran’s new targets,” which includes offices, cloud computing facilities, data centres, and development hubs linked to major US technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle and Palantir Technologies.