IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon’s Bahrain data center

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队声称摧毁了亚马逊巴林数据中心

IRGC claims cruise missile strike destroyed AWS Bahrain data center in Wave 24, citing Darkhovin nuclear plant as casus belli. Third strike on same facility since March. 伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）声称在第24波攻击中，使用巡航导弹摧毁了亚马逊云科技（AWS）的巴林数据中心，并称此举是为了报复美国对伊朗达尔霍温（Darkhovin）核电站的袭击。这是自3月以来该设施第三次遭到袭击。

July 21, 2026 MANAMA — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed on July 21 that it struck and destroyed Amazon Web Services’ data center in Bahrain with cruise missiles, in stated retaliation for the US strike on Iran’s Darkhovin nuclear power plant two days earlier. 2026年7月21日，麦纳麦——伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队于7月21日声称，他们使用巡航导弹袭击并摧毁了亚马逊云科技（AWS）位于巴林的数据中心，以此报复两天前美国对伊朗达尔霍温核电站的袭击。

The claim, carried by IRNA, Tasnim, and Iran International but unconfirmed by Amazon or CENTCOM, would mark the first use of cruise missiles against commercial cloud infrastructure in the Gulf conflict and at least the third kinetic action against the same AWS facility since March. 该声明由伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社（IRNA）、塔斯尼姆通讯社（Tasnim）和伊朗国际电视台（Iran International）报道，但尚未得到亚马逊或美国中央司令部（CENTCOM）的证实。如果属实，这将是海湾冲突中首次针对商业云基础设施使用巡航导弹，也是自3月以来针对该AWS设施的至少第三次军事行动。

The IRGC packaged the data center strike alongside claimed hits on US air-defense radar at Muharraq and a Patriot battery at Riffa, treating Amazon’s commercial cloud as operationally equivalent to the military systems defending Bahrain’s airspace. 伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队将此次数据中心袭击与对穆哈拉格（Muharraq）美军防空雷达和里法（Riffa）“爱国者”导弹连的袭击相提并论，将亚马逊的商业云视为与保卫巴林领空的军事系统具有同等作战地位的目标。

For Saudi Arabia, which launched its own in-kingdom AWS region in Riyadh six months before the war began and still carries legacy workloads in Bahrain, the targeting logic the IRGC applied to a building twenty-five kilometres across the causeway now covers every piece of US-branded digital infrastructure in the Gulf — from Aramco’s cloud-integrated operational technology to NEOM’s planned 1.5-gigawatt data center campus. 对于沙特阿拉伯而言，其在战争爆发前六个月已在利雅得启动了境内的AWS区域，但仍有部分遗留工作负载运行在巴林。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队对跨海大桥另一端建筑所采取的打击逻辑，现在已覆盖了海湾地区所有带有美国品牌的数字基础设施——从沙特阿美（Aramco）的云集成运营技术，到NEOM规划中的1.5吉瓦数据中心园区。

The Wave 24 Strike Package

第24波打击行动

The IRGC’s public relations office stated that its Aerospace Force, “in continuation of the 24th wave of Operation Nasr-2, in response to the aggression and violation by the child-killing American army against the under-construction and civilian facilities at Darkhovin, attacked the central data infrastructure of the American company Amazon in Bahrain with several cruise missiles and destroyed it.” 伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队公共关系办公室声明称，其航空航天部队“作为‘纳斯尔-2’（Nasr-2）行动第24波的延续，为回应杀害儿童的美国军队对达尔霍温在建民用设施的侵略和破坏，使用多枚巡航导弹袭击并摧毁了美国亚马逊公司在巴林的核心数据基础设施。”

The AWS claim was not isolated. IRNA reported that the same wave included a strike on a US radar station at Muharraq and a combined missile-and-drone attack on a US Patriot air-defense system at Riffa — both in Bahrain. The combination matters: by suppressing air-defense installations and striking the commercial target in a single coordinated operation, the IRGC treated a data center as a military-grade objective warranting the same operational planning it applied to radar and interceptor batteries. 针对AWS的袭击并非孤立事件。据伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社报道，同一波攻击还包括对穆哈拉格美军雷达站的打击，以及对里法美军“爱国者”防空系统的导弹与无人机联合攻击。这种组合意义重大：通过在一次协同行动中压制防空设施并打击商业目标，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队将数据中心视为军事级目标，并对其采取了与雷达和拦截导弹连同等的作战规划。

Why Did the IRGC Cite Darkhovin?

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队为何提及达尔霍温？

The IRGC linked the AWS strike directly to the US attack on Iran’s Darkhovin nuclear power plant, which the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said occurred at approximately 3:39 a.m. local time on July 19, 2026. CENTCOM confirmed it had completed strikes on Iranian military infrastructure on the evening of July 18 Eastern time, with the Darkhovin site appearing in a target package that also included coastal surveillance facilities, naval assets, and IRGC positions. 伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队将此次AWS袭击直接与美国对伊朗达尔霍温核电站的袭击联系起来。伊朗原子能组织称，该袭击发生在2026年7月19日当地时间凌晨3:39左右。美国中央司令部证实，其已于美国东部时间7月18日晚间完成了对伊朗军事基础设施的打击，达尔霍温核电站出现在了打击目标清单中，该清单还包括海岸监视设施、海军资产和伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队的阵地。

Darkhovin is an indigenously designed 360-megawatt nuclear power plant in Khuzestan province, roughly seventy kilometres south of Ahvaz on the Karun River. Construction restarted in December 2022, with an estimated cost of $1.5 to $2 billion over eight years, and the IAEA confirmed the site contained no nuclear material and posed no radiological risk at the time of the strike. 达尔霍温是一座位于胡齐斯坦省的自主设计360兆瓦核电站，位于卡伦河畔，阿瓦兹以南约70公里处。该项目于2022年12月重启建设，预计耗资15亿至20亿美元，工期八年。国际原子能机构（IAEA）证实，在袭击发生时，该地点不含任何核材料，也不存在放射性风险。