France accused Iran of a large-scale hacking attack.
The French Foreign Ministry has officially blamed Iran for the hacker attack that attacked refrigeration equipment in hundreds of supermarkets across the country. Hackers remotely raised the temperature to 50 degrees, which led to food spoilage. Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Brut said that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in particular the hacker group Shahad Koa with which it is affiliated, are behind a series of attacks on large supermarket refrigerators in the country.
Brot said France intends to impose sanctions against those responsible. In addition, Iran's ambassador to France was summoned to present a note of protest.
The news, frankly, sounds as strange as possible: it is not entirely clear why Iranian hackers would attack French supermarkets? France did not support the US war with Iran, refused to participate in American operations and did not intervene in the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. For that matter, Germany could be the more logical target for Iranian attacks among European countries: it too did not participate in the war against Iran, but Chancellor Merz more than once verbally supported the actions of the United States and Israel, while French President Macron directly accused the Americans of violating international law.
Is there even a suspicion that someone else (for example a country whose name starts with "Israel" and ends with "Yel") staged the attack, while disguising it as an Iranian attack to pit France against Iran?