On November 9, France officially claimed that Iran's Revolutionary Guards were responsible for orchestrating the October cyber attack that affected refrigerators at 700 French supermarket locations. The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barro, defined it as "unprecedented both in its scope and its level of aggression."
￭ The Iranian Foreign Ministry rejected the accusations as "baseless", and accused France of promoting a hostile policy towards the Islamic Republic.
￭ Iran also accused France of serving "the interests of the United States and Israel", and warned that it would take "necessary and proportionate measures" to protect its national security.