2 Iranian-owned steel factories bombed, IRGC attacks US tech giant Oracle in UAE

Illustration. Training launch of Iran's Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile. (Wikimedia Commons-ypa.ir-Hossein Velayati)

JAKARTA - The Navy Command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran claims to have launched an attack on a data center belonging to the US technology company, Oracle, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The IRNA news agency reported that Oracle's facilities in the UAE were targeted in retaliation after a US-Israeli air strike injured former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi who was reportedly coordinating with Pakistan on possible US-Iranian negotiations.

The US-Israeli attack killed Kharazi's wife who was at his residence in Tehran on April 1.

The US-Israel also recorded that it had just launched an attack on civilian infrastructure, namely two of Iran's largest steel factories.

Separately, the central military command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, in a statement broadcast by state television said the IRGC launched a retaliatory attack early on Friday, April 3.

"The American steel industry in Abu Dhabi, the American aluminum industry in Bahrain, and the Zionist regime's Rafael weapons factory" are among a number of targets," the statement quoted NDTV as saying.

Citing Gulf News, the Dubai Government Media Office reported that the IRGC had launched or attempted an attack in Dubai was "fake news" and had no factual basis.

In a statement posted today on its X account, one of the UAE Government's media outlets claimed that the news that the IRGC had launched or attempted to attack Oracle's office in Dubai was "fake news" and had no factual basis.

Dubai authorities have repeatedly clarified, especially as regional tensions in the Middle East have escalated, about the unverified information.

However, on the one hand, there is news that during the US-Israeli conflict against Iran, the destruction caused by Iran's retaliatory attacks is contained by the governments of the affected countries.