Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatens 15 US companies in the Middle East
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has suggested it could target the facilities of more than a dozen US companies in the Middle East.
In a statement, the IRGC warned: ‘We warn the American regime to evacuate all American industries in the region.
‘We ask people living near industrial factories in which Americans hold shares to leave those areas so they are not harmed.’
More than a dozen companies from the US are based in the Middle East, including ExxonMobil, Boeing, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin and Amazon Web Services.
Others include Oracle, Citigroup, NSO Group, KKR, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, and Trafitura.
They’re based in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Jordan, and other areas throughout the region.
The IRGC threatened to target the industries in the ‘coming hours’, warning those living near factories.
Iranian missiles have already targeted US-linked areas in the region, with a missile landing on the US Embassy inside Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone this weekend.
Trump has remained firm in his bid to spark regime change and knock out Iran’s nuclear weapons arsenal.
But this week, he’s also been accused of backtracking and contradicting his own statements regarding the war in Iran.
He told reporters: ‘Really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory – because it is their territory.’
Less than an hour later, he said: ‘They should come, and they should help us protect it. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all, because we don’t need it.
‘We have a lot of oil. We’re the number one producer anywhere in the world times two.’
After a strike on an Iranian school killed 175 children in late February, there was confusion as to whether Iran, the US or Israel was behind it.
US Central Command has acknowledged using Tomahawk missiles in this war and even released a photo of the USS Spruance, part of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group located within range of the school, firing a Tomahawk missile on February 28.
When asked by a reporter whether the US was responsible for the blast, which killed mostly children, Trump responded, without providing evidence: ‘No, in my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran.’
He added: ‘I will certainly, whatever the report shows, be willing to live with that report.’
After a report found that the US struck the school, Trump said: ‘I don’t know about it.’
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