Iran declares to target US-Israeli financial, banking interests in region | US-Israel war over Iran news

The IRGC releases a list of offices and infrastructure run by top US companies with Israeli links whose technology has been used for military applications.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened to attack “financial centers and banks” linked to United States and Israeli entities after what it called an attack on an Iranian bank with its 12th day of war.

“The enemy has opened our hands to target financial centers and banks belonging to the United States and the Zionist regime,” said a spokesman for the headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya, described as the UN-owned IRGC, on Wednesday.

“Local people should not stay within one kilometer of banks,” it warned.

“Americans must await our response and our pained response,” it added.

Iranian counterattacks have continued as explosions have rocked Tehran, with Iran saying US and Israeli forces have bombed nearly 10,000 civilian targets in the country and killed more than 1,300 civilians since the war began on February 28.

The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency released a list of offices and infrastructure run by top US companies with Israeli connections whose technology has been used for military applications, describing them as “Iran’s new targets,” Al Jazeera’s Mazier Motamedi reported from Tehran.

“As the scope of a regional war expands to an infrastructure war, so does the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets,” 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 and some Gulf countries, Motamedi said.

Iran’s state broadcaster on Wednesday said the Israeli attack on a bank branch in Tehran was an “unjust and unusual act of war” and declared that “enemy” financial centers and banks were tied to the US and Israel.

According to state television, several employees died in the incident.

The warnings came after Israel bombed a Lebanese building in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday from the headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya, which was reportedly a branch of the Hezbollah-linked al-Qard al-Hasan financial institution.

Al-Qard al-Hasan, a quasi-banking institution that offers interest-free loans to people, is one of many charities run by Hezbollah, including schools, hospitals and low-price supermarkets.

Israel claims it is trying to destroy Hezbollah and its operational capabilities, and has killed at least 570 people and displaced 780,000 in the process.