{"id":373169,"date":"2026-04-03T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:31:21","slug":"irans-threat-to-us-tech-firms-intel-becomes-first-company-to-respond-says-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373169\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s threat to US tech firms: Intel becomes first company to respond, says: \u2018We are \u2026\u2019 |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/us-tech-companies.jpg\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s threat to US tech firms: Intel becomes first company to respond, says: \u2018We are \u2026\u2019\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Intel has become the first major American technology company to respond after Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened attacks on 18 US firms operating in the Middle Eastern region. The Guards said the US had \u201cignored our repeated warnings about the need to stop terrorist operations\u201d, and that the companies\u2019 offices are now a \u201clegitimate target\u201d.\u201cThe safety and wellbeing of our team is our number one priority. We are taking steps to safeguard and support our workers and facilities in the Middle East and are actively monitoring the situation,\u201d CNBC quoted an Intel spokesperson as saying. <\/p>\n<p>Why Iran threatened to attack US tech companies<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (March 31), the Revolutionary Guard posted a warning on a Guard-affiliated Telegram channel, declaring 18 US tech companies to be \u201clegitimate targets\u201d due to their involvement in American and Israeli strikes on Iranian soil.\u201cFrom now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,\u201d the post read. The Guard set a stark deadline: attacks would begin at 8:00 pm Tehran time on Wednesday, April 1 (10:30 pm) and employees at those companies have been warned to immediately vacate their workplaces to protect their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Which US tech companies are on the &#8216;list&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Iran aims to target some of the biggest names in American business:Tech giants: Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Palantir and BoeingBeyond tech: JPMorgan, Tesla, GE and UAE-based AI firm G42, along with defence technology company Spire SolutionsIn early March, Iranian operatives struck Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the Middle East, triggering widespread outages across apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The region has become one of the hottest destinations for American technology investment, particularly around artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Countries across the Gulf offer a powerful combination of cheap energy, vast open land and wealth that makes building large-scale data centres and AI facilities highly attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intel has become the first major American technology company to respond after Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[179109,179108,85,179105,179107,179104,46,43,179110,179106],"class_list":{"0":"post-373169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-ai-infrastructure-in-gulf-countries","9":"tag-american-technology-investment-in-middle-east","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-intel-response-to-iran-threats","12":"tag-iran-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","13":"tag-iran-threat-to-us-tech-firms","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-safety-measures-by-intel","17":"tag-us-tech-companies-on-irans-target-list"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}