Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Tuesday they would retaliate against leading US tech firms such as Google, Meta and Apple if more Iranian leaders were killed in “targeted assassinations” in the more than month-old war.
The Guards issued the threat as Iranian media reported a wave of US-Israeli strikes had hit military bases, a religious site and a cancer drug plant in the war rocking the region and roiling the world economy.
They charged that 18 American tech firms were complicit in the killings of Iranian officials and warned that they “should expect the destruction of their relevant units in exchange for every assassination in Iran”.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war on February 28, killing Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei and setting off a wave of retaliatory attacks across the region.
Trump has since zigzagged on whether Washington plans to further escalate the war — possibly by deploying American ground forces — or try to end it through negotiations with Tehran.
