Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi

Force in Play

Active; leading Iran's military response

For decades, American tech companies built out massive data centers and office complexes across the Persian Gulf without ever treating them as potential military targets. On April 4, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) changed that calculation by striking Oracle's headquarters building in Dubai Internet City with a drone — part of a declared campaign against 18 US firms the IRGC accuses of supporting American and Israeli military operations.

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