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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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The Iranians have considered anyone doing business with the Israelis a "legitimate military target" since 1979.

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So you think a foreign distributer for some random Israeli agricultural product is a legitimate target? That's disturbing.

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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

Somehow with all the thingamajigs that the Israeli apparatus has, from spy networks to informants at the upper levels of the IRGC, and a heavily militarized population, and a heavily fortified border along both the West Bank and Gaza (even more than the Jordanian or Egyptian borders), somehow they still couldn't detect and stop a breach of their barricades.... Hmm.....

And let's not forget, all of this happened right when protests in the streets against Netanyahu were at their highest levels.

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

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Good!

The world is sick of US tech companies causing harm, and yet the US gets mad when China does the same.

This is also exposing how in 2026, companies do not have backup plans or high availability for the matter.

The AWS datacenter they took down recently, many services stopped working altogether. You would expect companies to have some fallback plan or something, even if running slower due to latency instead of going offline entirely.

I am pretty sure more people are supporting Iran to take down US techs datacenters. US techs for a long time has become the biggest evil within our digital world.

Thankfully, Steam alone made people see Linux as a better alternative to Windows, so did other open-source projects. Visa/MasterCard being ditched, Social Media and other techs like Google going under also.

What a beatufil transition to witness.

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

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Good! The world is sick of US tech companies causing harm, and yet the US gets mad when China does the same. This is also exposing how in 2026, companies do not have backup plans or high availability for the matter. The AWS datacenter they took down recently, many services stopped working altogether. You would expect companies to have some fallback plan or something, even if running slower due to latency instead of g…

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

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WTF, i'm going to get paged because some Iranian dude wants to take out a fiber line?

They're defending themselves. If you don't want this, tell your government to put an end to the war

Lashing out against basically everyone is not "defending themselves" When my house gets vandalized by this neighborhood rascal, I don't defend myself by throwing rocks at my entire neighborhood

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 b…

> The fact that they alienated Qatar last week is truly mindboggling though

I mean Qatar did just give a really expensive plane to the guy who unilaterally assassinated the Iranian supreme leader and is bombing their country to smithereens.

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> 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 b…

> The fact that they alienated Qatar last week is truly mindboggling though I mean Qatar did just give a really expensive plane to the guy who unilaterally assassinated the Iranian supreme leader and is bombing their country to smithereens.

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

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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?

I think it highlights the real and moral risks to doing business in Israel. Israel was a state created by ethnic cleansing, it was never a good idea to attempt to create a tech industry there. Hopefully Iran reverses many of these poorly made decisions from tech giants.

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

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They're defending themselves. If you don't want this, tell your government to put an end to the war

Lashing out against basically everyone is not "defending themselves" When my house gets vandalized by this neighborhood rascal, I don't defend myself by throwing rocks at my entire neighborhood

It's strategic in these times where international law has been evidently not respected by the major powers

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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.

I don't think that's "terrorism" as much as it is self defense. The Haitian Slave Revolt and Indigenous American Pueblo Revolts come to mind as analogous military actions that produced positive results.
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