TEHRAN/DUBAI, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said Thursday that it had hit a data center of the U.S. Oracle tech corporation based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
The Dubai Media Office rejected the claim in a post on social media platform X on Friday, calling reports of an Iranian strike on Oracle's data center in Dubai false.
Earlier on Thursday, the IRGC said it targeted and destroyed Amazon's cloud computing operation center in Bahrain in its first action against U.S. and Israeli "espionage" firms in the region in retaliation for the "assassinations" of Iranians.
The development came amid heightened tensions following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting on Feb. 28, to which Iran and its regional allies responded with attacks on Israeli and U.S. interests across the Middle East. ■
