Days after warning 18 US firms in the Gulf regions of attacks, Iran has claimed it targeted an Amazon building in Bahrain on Thursday. As per state media, Iran’s IRGC stated it launched a targeted attack on the Amazon AWS building in the neighbouring country.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated thet carried out the attack on the Amazon building as part of the third phase of the 90th wave of Operation True Promise 4. Track the latest on the US Iran war here
Mehr news agency also confirmed the attack on the cloud computing centre in Bahrain.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry had said earlier in the day that civil defence teams were extinguishing a fire at a company facility following what authorities described as an Iranian attack, reported FT.
The attack on the Amazon building comes two days after Iran warned it will target American firms in the Gulf region which are not affiliated with the US military. Citing the use of artificial intelligence in warfare and espionage, the IRGC listed out 18 companies in danger, which included big names such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and more.
American companies on the IRGC hit list included Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard or HP, Cisco, Intel, Oracle, Apple, Meta Platforms (which owns Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram), International Business Machines or IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Tesla, General Electric, and Boeing.
In a statement, the IRGC further added that anyone in the buildings of these companies is advised to leave to “preserve their lives.”
The latest attack in Bahrain comes as Iran’s retaliation to an attack on its steel plants by the US and Israel on Wednesday. The US-Israeli attack has prompted a shutdown of the two steel plants – Khuzestan Steel Company in the city of Ahvaz and Mobarakeh Steel Company.
