The Dispatch
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conducted a series of strikes on Thursday, April 2, 2026, targeting technology infrastructure, military assets, and transportation facilities across multiple countries. The strikes were described by Iranian state media as retaliation for the ongoing United States and Israeli military operation against Iran, which entered its second month in late March.
The IRGC attacked Oracle Corporation’s data center in Dubai, according to Iranian state media. Earlier on Thursday, the IRGC struck an Amazon cloud computing centre in Bahrain, citing retaliation for attacks on Iran, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency. The Amazon facility in Bahrain had been damaged in a previous Iranian strike on Wednesday; Bahrain’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that civil defense teams were extinguishing a fire at a company facility following what authorities described as an Iranian attack. Two drones targeted a United States diplomatic facility near Baghdad Airport in Iraq, according to security sources. Drone attacks were also conducted against United States fighter jets at Jordan’s Al Azraq air base, according to Iran’s Mehr News Agency. A drone crashed at Iraq’s Trebil border crossing with Jordan, damaging customs clearance offices. The Islamic Republic’s semi-official Fars News Agency published a list of potential military targets on Thursday that included bridges in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Jordan. Bahrain’s Foreign Minister told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that he hopes for a vote on Friday on a resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
At 12:37 PM on April 2, the President of the United States published a video to Truth Social showing the destruction of a bridge in Iran. “The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow,” the President wrote. “IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY.” The post was signed President DONALD J. TRUMP. The post was published approximately fifteen hours after the President’s primetime address to the nation, in which he stated that the United States’ strategic objectives in Iran are nearing completion and that two to three additional weeks of strikes are planned. The ceasefire condition — the opening of the Strait of Hormuz — was not referenced in the post. Iran has named its own military operation Operation Roaring Lion.
This correspondent notes, for purposes of administrative completeness, that Oracle Corporation announced layoffs of several thousand employees in the weeks preceding the IRGC’s attack on its Dubai data center. The circumstances of those layoffs were reported in a prior dispatch. Oracle has not commented on the status of the Dubai facility. Amazon has not commented on the status of the Bahrain facility. The bridge has been confirmed as tumbling down.
Source Block
- Primary: Jerusalem Post — IRGC attacks Dubai Oracle data center, April 2, 2026: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891951
- Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891951
- Trump Truth Social post: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116336091138489301
- Screenshots: screenshots/1775160459066_image.png, screenshots/1775160469965_image.png, screenshots/1775160610098_image.png
- Internal cross-references:
- Oracle layoffs / IRGC target list piece:
2026-03-31-oracle-layoffs-6am-irgc-target-list-ai.md - Ceasefire / Hormuz piece:
2026-04-01-trump-iran-ceasefire-request-hormuz-wall-street.md - Operation Epic Fury address:
2026-04-02-trump-address-nation-operation-epic-fury-nearing-completion.md
- Oracle layoffs / IRGC target list piece:
