Iran-US War: The conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran has now reached its 35th day as of April 3, with no clear signs of slowing down. In the midst of ongoing Iranian attacks on US and Israeli targets across the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has dismissed claims that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted Oracle’s data centre in Dubai.
On social media platform X, the Dubai Government's Media Office addressed the reports, saying that allegations the IRGC had carried out or attempted an attack in Dubai were "fake news" and lacked any factual basis. Sharing a screengrab of one such report, the official account wrote, "Fake news alert."
The clarification came after Iranian media suggested that data centres of two US companies, Oracle in Dubai and Amazon in Bahrain, had been attacked by the IRGC in a fresh series of strikes against American firms on Thursday.
Dubai has repeatedly emphasised the need to avoid spreading misinformation during periods of regional tension, urging residents to rely solely on official government channels for updates.
These events followed warnings from Iranian state media that the IRGC would target American companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, Oracle, Intel, HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, Palantir, and Nvidia, in retaliation for US-Israeli actions. On Thursday, Tehran announced it had targeted the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel after US-Israeli strikes hit the country’s two largest steel plants.
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Iran has also been on the receiving end of such attacks. On March 11, a missile apparently launched by US or Israeli forces struck a data center in Tehran operated by Iran's state-run bank, Sepah, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The Middle East conflict started following the killing of 86-year-old Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in joint military strikes by the US and Israel, after which Iran, in its retaliation, targeted Israeli and US assets in several Gulf countries and Israel, causing disruption in the waterway and affecting international energy markets and global economic stability since February 28.