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Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

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Re: Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

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> US tech companies have large manufacturing footprints in the region Yes in Israel and part of the West Bank (the Mellanox founder tried to expand Nvidia's footprint in the region - as in hiring in the West Bank and Gaza - until his daughter was murdered at Nova). Outside of Israel, not really excluding data centers which are leased. That said, most tech companies have already been operating in Israel for decades un…

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Re: Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

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> foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target Iran has been very liberal with what it considers military targets. There is no evidence rejecting military work has protected anyone from it.

well dance festival is a 'military target' to them

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> US tech companies have large manufacturing footprints in the region Yes in Israel and part of the West Bank (the Mellanox founder tried to expand Nvidia's footprint in the region - as in hiring in the West Bank and Gaza - until his daughter was murdered at Nova). Outside of Israel, not really excluding data centers which are leased. That said, most tech companies have already been operating in Israel for decades un…

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Eyal Waldman is an Israeli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyal_Waldman

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well dance festival is a 'military target' to them

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> If I found a group of terrorist sympathizers invading my property and dancing on it I wouldn't be very empathetic to them

But it would be your choice to commit terrorism back at them. Plenty of people across history have chosen both ways. It tends to go much better for one group over the other.

Re: Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

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> The statement named Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solution, G42 and Boeing https://www.intellinews.com/irgc-threatens-to-strike-us-tech...

> G42

G42 isn't American - it's Emirati. But it doesn't matter.

Iran is only burning additional bridges with it's neighbors which has only incentivized them to take a much more hardline stance against the Islamic Republic.

The fact that they alienated Qatar last week is truly mindboggling though - it was QatarEnergy that was subsidizing NOIC and Qataris with clan ties in Iran like Saad al Kaabi who were some of the biggest proponents for Qatar-Iran normalization have been sidelined.

It has also now aligned the Gulf States with Ukraine [0], and now reduces Iran to become a mere extension of Russia, and arguably converts this conflict into a second theatre of the Russia-Ukraine War, which in my opinion has become a de facto world war.

[0] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/28/zelenskyy-signs-air...

Re: Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

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> US tech companies have large manufacturing footprints in the region Yes in Israel and part of the West Bank (the Mellanox founder tried to expand Nvidia's footprint in the region - as in hiring in the West Bank and Gaza - until his daughter was murdered at Nova). Outside of Israel, not really excluding data centers which are leased. That said, most tech companies have already been operating in Israel for decades un…

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Is this really an appropriate comment for HN? Justifying the murder of someone as some kind of twisted moral lesson for her father?
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