{"id":1000530,"date":"2026-04-01T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000530"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:34:43","slug":"iran-threatens-meta-google-apple-and-other-us-tech-companies-from-now-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/iran-threatens-meta-google-apple-and-other-us-tech-companies-from-now-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatens Meta, Google, Apple and other US tech companies: \u2018From now on\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in the Middle East have reached a critical level. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened major American technology and aerospace companies, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp-parent company Meta, Google and Apple, with an attack and urged the staff to evacuate their office in the region. The Iran\u2019s multi-service primary force has said that these these Silicon Valley companies are now legitimate targets because they are \u2018responsible\u2019 for high-tech warfare that has led to the termination of the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released via Iran\u2019s state-aligned Tasnim news agency (as per Al-Jazeera), the IRGC warned on Tuesday (March 31) that it will begin targeting US tech companies operating in the region starting at 8:00 pm local time tomorrow (April 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in the Middle East have reached a critical level. Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened major American technology and aerospace companies, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp-parent company Meta, Google and Apple, with an attack and urged the staff to evacuate their office in the region. The Iran\u2019s multi-service primary force has said that these these Silicon Valley companies are now legitimate targets because they are \u2018responsible\u2019 for high-tech warfare that has led to the termination of the country\u2019s leadership. In a statement released via Iran\u2019s state-aligned Tasnim news agency (as per Al-Jazeera), the IRGC warned on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}