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The office of U.S. tech giant Oracle in Dubai was damaged by falling debris, the city’s media office said on Sunday, as Iran continued to fire projectiles at targets around the Middle East in retaliation against U.S. and Israeli strikes.
“Authorities confirm that they responded to a minor incident caused by debris from an aerial interception that fell on the facade of the Oracle building in Dubai Internet City,” the Dubai Media Office said in a post on X. No one was injured in the incident, the media office said.
Oracle didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment emailed by CNBC.
A CNBC journalist in Dubai reported hearing multiple interceptions overnight.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened attacks on a swath of U.S. tech companies with operations in the Middle East, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Google.
The Guard warned on Tuesday that 18 tech companies would be considered as “legitimate targets” in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
“From now on, for every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,” they said in an Guard-affiliated Telegram channel.
The list of companies also included Cisco, HP, Intel, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JPMorgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based artificial intelligence company G42.
James Henderson, CEO of risk management firm Healix, said the rise in threats against tech companies is not a flash in the pan, but is a sustained pattern.
“Tech assets are now treated as part of the conflict, not peripheral to it,” Henderson told CNBC.
“It also signals that future crises may target data centers and cloud platforms as much as traditional strategic sites,” he added.
Iran struck Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East in early March, causing outages in a number of apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates.