Iran has previously threatened to attack the energy infrastructure of Gulf countries if its own facilities were attacked. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency, which is linked to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also released a list of major U.S. tech companies in Israel and the Gulf that it said would be targeted in the event of an infrastructure war, including offices of Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia and Oracle.
An energy war in the Gulf
Trump’s threat to expand attacks to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure comes just two days after he declared victory in the war against Iran, which began on Feb. 28 with a barrage of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes across the country.
“I think we’ve won,” he told reporters outside the White House on March 20. “We’ve knocked out their navy, their air force. We’ve knocked out their anti-aircraft, we’ve knocked out everything. We’re roaming free…From a military standpoint, they’re finished.”