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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued a clear public warning to the US that any damage to Iran’s electricity infrastructure will be met with decisive retaliation. Specifically, IRGC spokesman Brigadier General Ibrahim Zolfgari threatened “complete and utter destruction” of US and Israeli facilities. ‘Hidden’ $30 billion Stargate AI Datacenter Abu Dhabi was later singled out in the video as an attractive target for Iranian subversion. The threats come after Iran reportedly caused substantial damage through rocket attacks on some of the Amazon AWS data centers that they have shut down.
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Above, you can see and hear Zolfaghari making major threats against US actions in Iran. The military spokesman announced, “Should the United States proceed with its threats regarding Iran’s power plant facilities the following retaliatory measures will be immediately implemented.” “All power plants, energy infrastructure, information and communications technologies of the Zionist regime, and all similar companies with American shareholders within the territory will face complete and utter destruction.”
After Zolfaghari’s comments, the video switches to a shot of Earth from space, which zooms in on Abu Dhabi on Google Maps. Then focus is placed on an area not far from the coast, showing an apparently ’empty’ area of desert. However, this bleak scene is overlaid with a message that says, “Nothing is hidden from our sight, even when Google hides it.” The video then switches to a ‘night vision’ view of the same area of the map, in which the full extent of the Stargate AI datacenter in Abu Dhabi can be clearly seen.
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Growth potential or deception?
One might question why Iran did not attack targets such as the Stargate AI data center during the last month of hostilities if this was possible. It has already caused enough damage to disrupt operations in some of the Amazon AWS Data Center. Perhaps these were just ‘lucky’ shots that managed to penetrate the security forces deployed in the Gulf countries. Apart from this, Iran has also done the same Threats against Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google and 14 other US tech companies In recent weeks.
With neither side feeling like this, the rhetoric will cool down and the issue will be pushed back. use of force Right now, we may actually find out whether Iran could launch a devastating attack on US business-related data centers. Of course, people are going to be at risk working at these facilities, so it’s not all about the $30 billion that’s sunk into these giant projects in the Middle East.
