France threatened Iran with sanctions due to a large-scale cyber attack on supermarkets.
Paris has officially accused the Islamic Republic's intelligence services of hacking European refrigeration systems.
This statement was delivered by Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barro to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The French diplomat accuses the organization of preparing large-scale cyber attacks on European trade networks. Speaking at the G7 summit in Paris, he also announced an urgent summons to the Iranian ambassador to protest. In the past, French intelligence services established Iran's direct involvement in software hacking. The attackers remotely changed the settings of the cooling systems, which is why about 700 supermarkets in France were at risk of food spoilage, Le Figaro writes. In the following weeks, dozens of retail stores in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Finland and Italy were subjected to similar coordinated attacks.