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Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said earlier that civil defense teams were “extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company as a result of the Iranian aggression,” but did not identify the company or provide details on the extent of the damage, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.
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Amazon declined to comment on any specific strike, according to the report.
The attack is the latest sign that the conflict between the US, Israel and Iran is spilling into the Gulf’s commercial technology infrastructure.
The development came one day after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to target major US technology companies operating in the Middle East, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple, widening concerns that digital and economic assets may increasingly come into the line of fire.
Amazon said on March 2 that two of its data center facilities in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain sustained physical impacts from drone strikes.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its Middle East (Bahrain) Region in July 2019 as its first cloud region in the Middle East. AWS said the Bahrain region consists of three Availability Zones and serves customers seeking lower-latency cloud infrastructure in the region.
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In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry said the decision violates the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law, particularly those concerning respect for national sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs, News.Az reports, citing Iran’s English-language Press TV.
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It described the move as “a strategic mistake” and “an unforgivable insult” to the Iranian nation, adding that it reflects what it called the Argentine government’s misguided alignment with Israel and the United States, which it accused of continuing “aggression” against Iran.
“By declaring their alignment with the US and Zionist regime’s military aggression against Iran, the president and minister of foreign affairs of Argentina have positioned themselves as partners to the crimes committed (in Iran) and have placed themselves on the wrong side of history,” the ministry said.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry also warned that the designation would seriously damage bilateral relations and set a dangerous precedent in interstate affairs, creating international responsibility for the Argentine government.
Argentina’s presidential office said on Tuesday that it had designated the IRGC, justifying the move by alleging that the elite Iranian force has backed the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which Argentina blames for a deadly 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires.
Press TV added that the announcement came amid what it described as continued pressure from US President Donald Trump on allies to designate the IRGC and take part in what it called “joint aggression” with Israel against Iran.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said traffic deaths fell 6.7% to 36,640 and the fatality rate fell to 1.10 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, the second lowest in U.S. history. American road deaths jumped dramatically during the 2020 COVID pandemic and remained elevated for years, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.
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U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.8% in 2021 to 43,230, the most in a single year since 2005. Pedestrians and cyclists killed on American roads rose to the highest number in more than four decades.
Jonathan Morrison, who heads the U.S. auto safety agency, said the agency is “doubling down on safety strategies that reduce risky driving behaviors before they cost lives.”
This is the fourth straight year of declines. Traffic deaths fell 3.8% in 2024 to below 40,000 for the first time since 2020.
As U.S. roads became less crowded during the pandemic, some motorists perceived police as less likely to issue tickets, experts said, resulting in riskier driving. Some drivers were also more likely to drive while being impaired by alcohol or drugs consumed at home during the pandemic.
The U.S. fatality rate rose much higher than for other developed nations during the pandemic.
Congress approved $5 billion over five years as part of a $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure law to address road safety.
A 2023 NHTSA study found crashes directly cost taxpayers $30 billion, and society as a whole $340 billion. When quality-of-life valuations were included, the total cost to society ran to $1.37 trillion – equivalent to 1.6% of U.S. economic output.
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