People attend a funeral ceremony for the Iranian army commanders who had been killed in strikes, amid the U.S.-Israeli battle with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 11, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) by way of REUTERS

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened assaults on a swath of U.S. tech corporations with operations within the Middle East, together with Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Google.

The IRGC warned on Tuesday that 18 tech corporations could be thought of as “legitimate targets” in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Attacks on these corporations would start from 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Tehran time (10:30 am ET), the IRGC stated in a submit on Telegram translated by Google, warning workers at these corporations to go away workplaces instantly to guard their lives.

“From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,” they stated in an IRGC-affiliated Telegram channel.

The listing of corporations additionally featured Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based AI firm G42.

It follows Iranian strikes on AWS knowledge facilities within the Middle East earlier this month, which brought about outages in numerous apps and digital companies within the United Arab Emirates.

U.S. tech corporations have been funnelling sources into the Middle East lately, particularly across the AI infrastructure buildout, with the area providing low cost vitality and entry to land.

“The safety and wellbeing of our team is our number one priority,” an Intel spokesperson stated in a press release to CNBC. “We are taking steps to safeguard and support our workers and facilities in the Middle East and are actively monitoring the situation.”

All the businesses listed within the Telegram submit have been approached for remark. Google and JP Morgan declined to remark.

— CNBC’s Holly Ellyatt and Emma Graham contributed to this report.