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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the French government of shifting the blame for its own failures onto others, after France attributed a wave of cyberattacks on its supermarkets to Iran. Paris said a cyber unit linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted refrigeration systems at more than 700 retail sites overnight on 11–12 October, sparking fires and spoiling food worth tens of millions of euros. France said it would summon Iran’s ambassador and push for further EU sanctions. “Yes, Iran is powerful. But unlike France, we do not exercise power via support for massacres in Gaza or bombings of schools and hospitals,” Araghchi wrote on X.


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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the French government of shifting the blame for its own failures onto others, after France attributed a wave of cyberattacks on its supermarkets to Iran.

Paris said a cyber unit linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted refrigeration systems at more than 700 retail sites overnight on 11–12 October, sparking fires and spoiling food worth tens of millions of euros.

France said it would summon Iran’s ambassador and push for further EU sanctions. “Yes, Iran is powerful. But unlike France, we do not exercise power via support for massacres in Gaza or bombings of schools and hospitals,” Araghchi wrote on X.