Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened to target US companies in the Gulf region if more Iranian leaders are killed in "targeted assassinations."
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Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard or HP, Cisco, Intel, Oracle, Apple, Meta Platforms, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Tesla, General Electric, and Boeing are in the list released by IRGC.
"These companies should expect the destruction of their respective units in exchange for each terror act in Iran, starting from 8 pm Tehran time on Wednesday, April 1," the IRGC statement said. "We advise the employees of these institutions to immediately leave their workplaces to preserve their lives."
The IRGC stated that the key element in designing and implementing assassinations are American and ICT and AI companies and hence these companies will be considered as legitimate targets from now on.
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This comes after US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned that the US will continue the war with more intensity if Iran fails to reach a deal.
"We have more and more options, and they have less ... in only one month we set the terms, the upcoming days will be decisive. Iran knows that, and there's almost nothing they can militarily do about it," he said.
Hegseth revealed that the United States is well aware of what China and Russia are doing to help Iran. "As far as Russia and China, we know exactly what they're doing, what they are or are not doing. We don't have to air publicly what all of that is, but where necessary, we're addressing it, we're mitigating it or we're confronting it head on," he added.
