Iran has generally been an active and persistant threat for many US firms long before this war began, and I have a hard time thinking they have had the restraint and the resources to collect together an arsenal of zero-day exploits they have yet to unleash. To me, this just reads as empty threats intended more for the potential economic fear it can produce.

After all, they already bombed an AWS data center in 2 countries who were not participating in the war.

Traditionally that meant armed forces, their bases, their supplies and so on. But the line has gotten awful blurry. Tech companies have become entwined with the state and are fundamnetal parts of both domestic and foreign policy. Targeting of military strikes is an obvious example [1][2].

I believe that in the very least these companies have risen to the level of defense contractors so Palantir is at least as valid of a target as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman or Boeing. Is that sufficiently valid? I don't know.

But I don't think you can plead ignorance about what your tech platform is being used for, particularly if you're Palantir. You are helping a military force kill people and are deciding which people. You can't wash your hands of that.

[1]: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

[2]: https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticia...

If they could do it, they would do it first and brag about it after.

And I say this as someone on team Persia on this conflict.

Not surprisingly, pretty much every company mentioned in this article is on that list.