Revolutionary Guards warning to France: beware of the "false flag trap" of Israeli prisoners.
Hussein Mohabi, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards, warned France to beware of what he called a "false flag trap" of captives, stressing that the force was not targeting civilians.
In a Persian-language post on the X social network, Mr. Mohavi wrote that unlike the United States and Israel's captives, civilians "have no place" on the IRGC's target list.
He added: "The ridiculous claim of a ground attack on the cooling systems is a repeated and disgusting trick on the part of the captives, which is proposed with the aim of inflaming the fear of Iran and gaining support in Europe."
On November 10, France accused the Killed Kaveh cyber unit, said to be linked to the Revolutionary Guards, of carrying out attacks on cooling control systems in more than 700 shopping centers in France on October 11 and 12. The French authorities announced that these attacks caused significant substantial damage, including fires and loss of food worth tens of millions of euros.
In early November, similar incidents were reported in at least 10 other European countries, including Belgium, Ireland, Sweden and Portugal.
The UK also announced that a small number of organizations in that country were affected. The identity of the perpetrators of the following attacks has not yet been officially announced.
France has announced that it will demand more sanctions from the European Union against those responsible for these actions; Meanwhile, the European Commission has also indicated that the imposition of additional cyber sanctions is under consideration. Iran's Foreign Ministry denied these allegations four days ago.