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Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands — Wired
Major US technology companies have been named as potential targets as the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States begins to spill into the digital infrastructure that powers modern economies.Iranian state-linked media this week published a list of offices and infrastructure run by US companies with Israeli links whose technology has been used for military applications. According to Al Jazeera, the companies include Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia, and Oracle.
Many of these companies operate regional offices, cloud infrastructure, or data-center operations across the Gulf, including in the United Arab Emirates. None have released public statements on this development.
The list was published by the semi-official, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–linked Tasnim News Agency alongside a warning that the scope of the conflict could expand beyond traditional military targets.
“As the scope of the regional war expands to infrastructure war, the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets expands,” Tasnim News Agency reported.
Last week, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting services and exposing the vulnerability of physical tech infrastructure in the region.
The warning followed Iranian reports of an Israeli strike on a bank building in Tehran linked to Bank Sepah. Iranian officials have described it as an attack on economic infrastructure.
Iranian state media said the incident justified expanding potential targets to include US and Israeli economic and banking interests across the region.
“With this illegitimate and uncommon action, the enemy is forcing our hand to target economic centers and banks linked to the US and Zionist regime in the region,” said a spokesperson for the IRGC-owned Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters. He warned civilians to stay one kilometer away from banks.
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Article 1: The Fetus of Monarchy: How the Founders’ Greatest Fear — an All-Powerful Executive — Manifests in Modern ‘Strongman’ Politics
Look past the latest culture war skirmishes, and a more troubling pattern emerges: federal threats to university funding and headline-grabbing media cancellations aren’t just noise; they’re signals of a new kind of executive muscle-flexing. The common thread? Personal, combative language that doesn’t just ask for loyalty — it demands it. That’s the calling card of power being gathered, not shared.
This isn’t just the usual political jostling. These are warning flares for the very threat that kept the Founders up at night: an executive with no leash. The Constitution wasn’t born out of abstract theory — it was a security system against precisely this kind of power grab. To make sense of today’s turbulence, we must rewind to 1787, when the central fear was simple: don’t let a single leader morph into a monarch. The playbook we’re seeing now is eerily close to what Edmund Randolph once called the ‘fetus of monarchy.’King George may not have stalked the halls of Philadelphia in person, but his shadow loomed large. The delegates, fresh from a bruising fight against a remote and unaccountable monarch, were determined not to swap one form of tyranny for another. Their challenge? Build an executive strong enough to get things done, but not so strong that power would sour into oppression.
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