Major corporations are increasingly entangled in modern warfare, blurring the line between civilian infrastructure and military targets.

Rightly or wrongly, America’s biggest companies are now on the front line of Iran’s drone and missile war.  Trump’s 48-hour deadline may have passed without Armageddon on the region’s energy infrastructure but billions of dollars worth of assets and the lives of millions of people who depend on them are still imperilled.

If Iran can stay in the fight, the biggest multinational corporations in the west may be heavily targeted thanks to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Are these major companies innocents victims or legitimate targets?

Microsoft, Palantir, Oracle, Siemens, Goldman Sachs, Dow Chemicals and many more will appear to Iran as an orchard of low-hanging fruit worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

ExxonMobil and Shell have already lost billions. The precision strike on the Ras Laffan LNG trains on 19 March will end up costing them and the Qataris about $20 billion in infrastructure and $100 billion in lost revenue to shareholders over the next five years. That destruction, as forewarned, came hot on the heels of an Israeli strike on Iran’s Pars gas field.

Amongst the first retaliatory strikes Iran launched as part of Operation True Promise IV were drone waves which hit Amazon data hubs in Bahrain and UAE.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. For Iran, the era of Strategic Patience is over. It knows it is locking horns with the greatest military power in history, the US-Israeli Empire. For the sake of all of us, the wisest course would be........

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