France summons Iran envoy over supermarket fridge hack, warns of response

PARIS: France summoned Iran’s ambassador on Tuesday after accusing Tehran of a cyberattack that disabled refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets, with Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot warning Paris could respond with cyber measures of its own.

French officials said on Monday that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind the attacks, which disrupted commercial refrigeration systems across France in October.

“The summoning of the Iranian ambassador, announced by the minister yesterday, took place this ⁠morning,” the foreign ministry ⁠said in a statement.

Iran’s foreign ministry rejected as “baseless and hostile” accusations that its Revolutionary Guards were behind the attacks.

Barrot, speaking on France Info television, said France would push for EU sanctions in response to what he called an “attack of unprecedented scale and aggression in our country.”