France accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of masterminding last month’s cyberattack, which disrupted 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets and struck deep inside the country’s food supply chain.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said earlier today in Paris that the IRGC’s operation marked the first large-scale cyberattack aimed at sabotage on French territory. Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 ministerial meeting, he said France had summoned Iran’s ambassador on the matter and was seeking sanctions against the group responsible.
“This is the first large-scale cyberattack with an aim of sabotage on the national territory,” Barrot said. “It hurts the nation’s interests and the security of French citizens. We will take sanctions at the European level against all who are responsible” and “we will take any other proportionate and necessary measure to respond to this attack and dissuade those who would like to reproduce it.”
