00:00And Hoda, Iran threatening to target U.S. tech companies in the Gulf.
00:04Clearly, this is something that is going to send something of a shockwave across that sector.
00:11Indeed, it will. And I think already some of these companies, which you mentioned earlier,
00:17companies like Google, like Palantir, like NVIDIA, will probably tell their employees to sit at home and work remotely.
00:26Now, Iran says that these companies have been working with Israel and have been helping Israel for military use,
00:35have been giving them software that could be used in their military.
00:39That is the reasoning. But what triggered all of that is the attack on the Sefa Bank in Iran.
00:46It infuriated the Iranians, and they said, well, if you're going to hit our economic structure,
00:55then we will hit yours. It's a tit for tat.
00:57So whatever happens in Iran, Iran then comes out and says, well, we will do the same to you.
01:04But that has actually triggered also a panic in the banking system.
01:09Just 24 hours ago, Citibank, for example, Standard Chart have announced that they told their employees to work from home.
01:22The same happened with HSBC here in Qatar.
01:26So we will see this continuous update from the Iranians, they remaining defiance,
01:33they showing that they can keep up with the pace of what is happening to them.
01:39And if you look at what happened over the last 24 hours,
01:42a number of targets that have been hit around the GCC as far as Iraq, as far as the southern
01:50port of Iraq.
01:51So many oil installation, oil storage facilities, containers.
01:56Iran does have intelligence, does have the capability, despite all that pressure it has from the skies.
02:05Despite Donald Trump saying that, or rather the Secretary of State for Defense saying that
02:11that would be the most intense night on Tuesday, was supposed to be the most intense night ever on Iran.
02:18And well, despite all of that, it has managed to inflict a lot of damage.
02:23Hoda, as always, thank you very much indeed.
02:25Hoda Abdelhamid there in Doha for France 24.
02:28Stay safe. Thank you very much indeed, Hoda.
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