Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened to attack “economic centres and banks” related to United States and Israeli entities in the region after what it called an attack on an Iranian bank, with the war in its 12th day.
It warned that “people of the region should not be within a one-kilometre radius of banks”.
“As the scope of the regional war expands to infrastructure war, the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets expands,” the agency said. The companies include Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia and Oracle, and the listed offices and infrastructure for cloud-based services are located in multiple Israeli cities, as well as in some Gulf countries, said Motamedi.
That is guranteed to lead to a lot of civilan casulties and might as well be a “we bomb everything” sort of situation. US finance is everywhere after all.
US and Israel opened pandora’s box by violating all rules of war and bombing Iranian banks and infrastructure. So now they find that the same thing can happen to their infrastructure.
Yeah. Iran has consistently responded in kind to attacks. The US struck their radar and anti-air sites, they struck back at the same. We blew up a school, they blew up an Amazon datacenter. The US and Israel encourage domestic rebellion in Iran, suddenly synagogues are being shot up.
Like, the Iranian government is a shitty oppressive regime, but they don’t export their shittiness or make war with their neighbors.
They do that right now and have done it in the past as well. Lebanon is suffering under Hezbollah, which is financed and trained by Iran. Right now they are bombing civilian targets of their Arab neighours. Iran is also attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz, which are not US or Israeli flagged or run. Also they financed and supported a lot of Shia groups in Iraq and actively supported Assads war against Syria.
What we see are three fascists countries fighting a war and a bunch of Arab countries, which are also not saints, stuck in the middle.
there were so many key events in the past 80 years where all this mess could’ve been prevented but western imperialism, colonialism and genocides always hindered any possibility of stabilizing the region.
The US got caught “saving” military personnel in hotels among civilians which is a warcrime. They used civilians as a shield which makes them responsible for deaths. There were also hits on infrastructure which supported the US Bases.
After Iran got attacked in an act of cowardice they announced they will fire at any ship trying to pass the Strait of Hormuz btw.
This war sucks for everyone involved and i can’t imagine what the people who got caught up in the middle of this shit are going through right now. But this war and it’s consequences have been the Epstein Coalition’s fault, and no one elses.
I’d generally agree with this, but let’s not frame things as the “Epstein Coalition”. The whole Epstein thing seems banal when set in relation to the insanity of American policy.
i mean, this war is in no relation to JEE, it just felt good to articulate my disdain.
These are the main drivers for invasion. Capitalist greed, without a care for human life and well-being. It stands to reason these targets can have an effect, maybe stop the invasion.
Bombing never worked, without a ground invasion. It only pisses of civilians. That is true for the US and Israel as well as Iran. The only result of this is more suffering.
How is it going to lead to civilian casualties? Iran is giving out warnings ahead of time. People can flee, data centres can’t. What is this point about?
If people actually followed that warning, that would mean emptying every city and town in the Middle East. That is very likely worse, then just staying and hoping that air defence is working and that Iran does not have enough missiles to hit everything. Keep in mind that all countries in the region have a lot of poor people. For some it is the Arab population, for others working migrants.
Israel has bunkers and Iran is too much of a pussyfooter to mindlessly pick off civilian targets. Additionally, America has provided a lot of air defence systems to the middle east.
They are likely not going to strike small venues, rather they will go for obvious strategic centres. After all, their missiles are not infinite.
It’s sort of not the norm to take these warnings at face value, what we’re seeing here is rhetoric intended to intimidate.
dw it’s just iran posturing again, we’ve seen what they’re capable of (flailing about sending drones in every direction) they’re not scary at all
they might be able to rape and torture and genocide their own citizens but outside of that their damage is pretty minimal
This take seems divorced from reality to me.