On March 31, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement saying it was targeting 18 companies and organizations in the Middle East linked to U.S. information and communications technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence companies, including Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
The statement advised employees of these organizations to immediately leave their workplaces for their own safety and residents within a 1-kilometer radius of these organizations to also leave their homes and seek safe locations.