Iran vowed on Wednesday to launch strikes against US and Israeli economic interests in the region, including banks, while an Iranian news agency listed tech giants as possible “future targets.”
“The enemy has given us free rein to target economic centers and banks belonging to the United States and the Zionist regime,” the military’s central operational command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, said in a statement carried by state TV in response to reports of a strike hitting an Iranian bank.
Iran’s military urged people across the region to avoid going within one kilometer (around half a mile) of banks.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that “a branch of my country’s oldest bank was bombed while full of employees. ”.
“Our powerful armed forces will exact retribution for this crime,” he added on X.
Iranian media stated that US and Israeli strikes attacked a bank in Tehran overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, killing an unidentified number of employees.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency also posted a list of prospective targets for Iran on Telegram, including the offices of tech behemoths such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia in the Gulf and Israel.
“With the expansion of regional war into infrastructure warfare, the scope of Iran’s potential targets is gradually expanding,” Tasnim wrote, without citing a source for the possible development.
Last week, Amazon announced that two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates had been “directly struck” by drones, affecting cloud services in the Middle East.
