{"id":325697,"date":"2026-04-05T08:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325697"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:40:51","slug":"does-blowing-up-data-centres-make-iran-the-real-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325697","title":{"rendered":"Does Blowing Up Data Centres Make Iran \u201cthe Real Resistance\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian April 3, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>On March 31st, the official channels of the IGRC published a statement<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/01\/iran-irgc-nvidia-appple-attack-threat.html\"> declaring US-based tech companies<\/a> \u201clegitimate targets\u201d, and threatening to \u201cdestroy\u201d on in retalliantion for every future \u201cassassination\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The list included Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Palantir, nVidia, Hewlett Packard and several others.<\/p>\n<p>These threats allegedly came to fruition last night, when an IGRC drone struck an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-891951\"> Oracle data centre in Dubai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However just to add the customary levels of confusion, the Dubai Media Office has claimed this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DXBMediaOffice\/status\/2039812899074724035\">never actually happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The IGRC have issued threats to<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FurkanGozukara\/status\/2039986135405932656\"> other data centres<\/a> in the area (presumably those attacks will actually happen, but who can say these days).<\/p>\n<p>Whether any individual attack should prove to be real or not, the choice of companies is interesting, dovetailing as it does\u00a0with a lot of mainstream stories about data centres <a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmentalhealthproject.org\/post\/the-dangers-of-data-centers#:~:text=Air%20Pollution&amp;text=According%20to%20a%20September%202025,cancer%20risks%20among%20nearby%20communities.\">being terrible and giving people cancer <\/a>\u00a0 as well as with some currently very popular social media memes.<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-XhgsUxXoTU\">Iranian govt references<\/a> to the \u201cEpstein class\u201d, and including Epstein\u2019s island in their propaganda videos featuring a history of US crimes:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWWQAijExEi\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Firstpost (@firstpost)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a well-placed marketing strategy, and the Western Left (at whom this is probably aimed) are eating it up, with some of them enthusiastically branding Iran \u201cthe real resistance\u201d to Western technocracy:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING Folks who look at the world broadly &amp; focus on digital surveillance, this is why it\u2019s vital to also look AT things individually from the ground up and not ignore real Resistance.<\/p>\n<p>This right here\u2026that is not only rejecting Agenda 2030\u2019s technocratic surveillance\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zvT0DQdZE1\">https:\/\/t.co\/zvT0DQdZE1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FiorellaIsabelM\/status\/2039036550227353824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A lot of words like \u201casymmetry\u201d and \u201cmultipolarity\u201d are being thrown around, painting a picture of Iran as a plucky little BRICS-backed David fighting for world peace and freedom against the Goliath of Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s seductive. I could wish it was true. But sorry, no \u2013 it\u2019s <em>garbage<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And weak-minded hopium garbage at that.<\/p>\n<p>Reality check to the dreamers \u2013 <em>everybody on both \u201csides\u201d wants the same technocratic prison for their citizenry<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cbdctracker.org\/currency\/iran-digital_rial\">Digital currency<\/a>, digital identity, digital surveillance. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No cash, no cars, no complaining.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Censorship, social credit and \u201csustainability\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know what facilitates all of that? Manufactured crises, economic collapse, contrived shortages.<\/p>\n<p>You know how to achieve those?<\/p>\n<p>Well, how about closing the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>We <em>know<\/em> all of this, we can see it happening. This is reality unfolding. The birth of a New World Order as Sergey Lavrov said the other day.<\/p>\n<p>The empire is moving house and getting a facelift.<\/p>\n<p>And the Iranian elites blowing up \u2013 or, indeed, just claiming to have\u00a0 blown up \u2013 a few data centres doesn\u2019t change that.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently it does make a lot of people believe in them as a savior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribsetar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2026\/04\/03\/does-blowing-up-data-centres-make-iran-the-real-resistance\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran struck the sites of various U.S. tech companies in the Middle East recently, claiming the companies targeted were deeply embedded with the U.S. military industrial complex. However, Kit Knightly wonders if this is part of a deceptive makeover?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":325698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325721,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325697\/revisions\/325721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}