https://www.intellinews.com/irgc-threatens-to-strike-us-tech...
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...
If you are permitting your airspace to carry out continual bombing campaigns causing massive casualties and also host enemy bases, then the "bridges" have already been burnt and you are a belligerent in the War.
Yes. Qatar due to Iran's support of the Thani family during the tumultuous 1990s [0] and the blockade [1], Sudan under Bashir [2] and now under the Army [3], Tunisia [4] due to ties with Ennadha, Algeria until 2025 [5] due to Morocco and Israel's close defense cooperation, and Kuwait due to economic and clan ties [6].
> Pretty much all of them already see non-Arab Shia Iran as an enemy
Only those states directly aligned with Saudi or the UAE (they are not the same team) view Iran with hostility becuase of Saudi Arabia and Iran's perennial rivalry over the MidEast.
[0] - https://www.danielpipes.org/6317/hamad-bin-jasim-bin-jabr-al...
[1] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/6/25/iran-hassan-rouhani...
[2] - https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/166344/235_Bodansky.pdf
[3] - https://www.bic-rhr.com/research/new-old-player-town-sudan-i...
[4] - https://iramcenter.org/en/inside-the-complexity-of-iran-tuni...
[5] - https://nouvellerevuepolitique.fr/hichem-aboud-comment-alger...
[6] - https://web.archive.org/web/20220717062931/http://www.payvan...
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.
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.
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.
>"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."
Iran has been very liberal with what it considers military targets. There is no evidence rejecting military work has protected anyone from it.
That patience earned them another, bigger attack against them in 2026.
If Israel were attacked two years back to back like that, with the second attack killing its prime minister, it would have burned every belligerent country around it to ash without any consideration for whom they are killing, and the world wouldn't bat an eye.
In fact, they did just that in response to a much smaller attack, and the world didn't bat an eye. A quarter million dead and counting, many of the killings being straight-up, no ambiguity war crimes. Strange how they get to inflict disproportionate violence in retaliation with no consequences.
And let's not forget, all of this happened right when protests in the streets against Netanyahu were at their highest levels.
I'm sure some people will paraphrase Radoslav Sikorski: "Thank you, Iran!"
If you don't want this, tell your government to put an end to the war
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.
