The French Minister of European Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, said that Paris will work with its European partners to intensify the sanctions against the Islamic Republic, especially the perpetrators of cyber attacks on store cooling systems.
In an interview with Franceinfo, the French news channel, Haddad said that this action was carried out in response to an attack for which France considers the Islamic Republic responsible.
Earlier on Monday, November 18, the French Foreign Ministry in a statement named Shahid Kua the cyber unit, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for attacking the refrigeration control systems of more than 700 stores in France. According to this ministry, the attacks on the night of 19-20 Mahar resulted in extensive material damage, a fire and loss of food worth tens of millions of euros. Paris also announced the summoning of the ambassador of the Islamic Republic and the proposal of new sanctions against Iranian individuals and institutions involved in these attacks.