Iran Threatens to Strike US Tech Companies in the Middle East

US tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Tesla, are being warned that they are being considered "legitimate targets."

Iran threatened on Tuesday to strike facilities in the Middle East owned by US technology companies as part of the escalating war that began with US and Israeli strikes at the end of February.

In a statement shared to the country's Tasmin News Agency, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that as of Wednesday, it would consider more than a dozen tech companies as "legitimate targets," including Apple, Google, Intel and Tesla. The message advised employees to leave their workplaces and residents near those companies "in all countries" to leave the area within a kilometer.