Cyber attack on grocery cabinets: France blames Iran, EU sanctions are on the way

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced that the Paris administration has not disabled any options against the large-scale cyber sabotage targeting the cooling systems of hundreds of supermarkets across the country, which he said was behind Iran.

In his statement to the FranceinfoTV channel, Barrot announced that the Paris Ambassador of the Tehran administration will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and that they will take steps to impose new sanctions against Iran at the European Union (EU) level.

Noting that this is the first time an act of cyber sabotage of this magnitude has been encountered on French soil, Barrot stated that steps that have not been disclosed to the public are also on the table.

Barrot pointed out the scope of the counter steps that France would take and said:

"I can state that we have not ruled out any possibility and that we will take all measures we deem proportionate and necessary, including steps we may not share with the public, in order to deter anyone who might consider engaging in similar actions in Iran or elsewhere."

Addressing the issue on the margins of the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Paris, Barrot pointed out the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as the perpetrator of the action.

Barrot emphasized that the sabotage in question was unprecedented in terms of both the operational size it reached and the level of aggression displayed.