France on Monday accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind a cyberattack on refrigeration systems in French supermarkets, according to BBC News and Reuters.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said at a press conference that Iran would face the consequences of these attacks.
“I can confirm that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is responsible for this attack. It is an attack of unprecedented scale and unprecedented aggression,” Jean-Noël Barrot said, as quoted by AFP.
“On Monday, as was only natural, I summoned Iran’s ambassador to France to lodge a strong protest over this extremely serious act. We will impose sanctions at the European level on all those responsible for this attack,” the French foreign minister added.
The incident, which occurred last month, caused refrigerators and freezers in hundreds of supermarkets across France to warm up, spoiling fresh and frozen goods worth an estimated tens of millions of euros.
Iran has not yet responded to these allegations.