France's foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, says Paris rules out nothing in response to an October cyberattack on supermarket refrigeration that France blames on Iran's IRGC. He told FranceinfoTV that Iran's ambassador would be summoned and that France would push for EU sanctions against those responsible.
"I can also tell you that we rule nothing out and will take all measures, including those we may not disclose publicly, that we deem proportionate and necessary to deter any further attacks"
On Monday 9 November the Paris prosecutor's office said the 11 October attack hit "700 retail locations across France", causing "significant food spoilage" and roughly twenty fires, CBS News reports. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau has opened a judicial investigation into Shahid Kaveh, described as an IRGC-affiliated offensive cyber unit, and requested international arrest warrants for two of its officials, AFP reports.
Barrot first made the accusation at the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris, calling the attack "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression". US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the accusation did not surprise him, according to globetv.app.
Tehran had not officially commented, though some Iranian outlets called the charge baseless. France's attribution has not been independently checked.