Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

> 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...

Do any of those US tech companies have large manufacturing footprints in the region? Intel has a couple of fabs in Israel, but presumably those are on the smaller side? Nvidia's work in the region is mostly R&D, isn't it?

In any case, though manufacturing may not be too badly affected, if the Iranians can pull this off, they would discourage further investment in Israel and raise the economic costs of the war for the US, which would be an geostrategic Iranian win of the "low hanging fruit" variety.

Has anyone else been having major reliability issues in me-south-1 since the attacks there? I've had to field several inquiries at work where the answer seems to be "sorry, there's a war on -- pick a different region".

as if they weren't targeting anything valuable already.

The problem with accepting military work is that foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target.

Better for public relations than hitting oil and gas, if they manage no casualties.

I'm sure some people will paraphrase Radoslav Sikorski: "Thank you, Iran!"