US EditionIRGC Claims New Strikes on Amazon Data Centers in Bahrain and Dubai
The IRGC said the attack was retaliation for US and Israeli actions and warned more American firms could be targeted.
- On Wednesday, Iran struck an Amazon Web Services cloud computing facility in Bahrain, with the interior ministry confirming a fire resulted from what it called "Iranian aggression."
- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had threatened 18 American companies in retaliation for US-Israeli military operations, warning that employees should "immediately leave their workplaces to preserve their lives."
- Amazon Web Services had previously advised clients to migrate workloads to other regions amid regional conflict, marking the second disruption of the company's Bahrain operations this month.
- The British embassy in Saudi Arabia warned nationals to avoid US-linked facilities, while Kuwait reported a drone attack that sparked a large fire at a fuel depot and a tanker was hit off Qatar.
- President Trump stated American forces will leave the region "very soon" within two to three weeks, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian defended the nation's response as "legitimate self-defense" in a letter to the American people.
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