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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.
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.