Paris (France) (AFP) – France, which on Monday accused Iran of being at the origin of the large-scale cyberattacks that targeted hundreds of connected refrigerators in supermarkets in October, "doesn't forbid anything" in its response against Tehran, warned Tuesday the head of diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot.

Published on: 10/11/2026 - 08:32

In addition to summoning the ambassador and implementing European sanctions, "I also tell you that we are not prohibiting ourselves from doing anything and that we will take all measures, including those which we will not report publicly, deemed by ourselves to be proportional and necessary to deter any new attack and punish the perpetrators of this unacceptable aggression," the minister declared on the FranceinfoTV channel.

“The French cyber defense doctrine opens up a certain number of possibilities for the authorities to take actions, even if we do not reveal the exact content,” he insisted.

The objective, according to him, is to “dissuade all those who might have the idea, in Iran or elsewhere, of reproducing it”.

Asked about a possible responsibility of Iran in the cyberattacks which targeted a refrigeration service provider of the French Blood Establishment, the French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa or even the Directorate of Public Finances, the Minister of Foreign Affairs indicated on the other hand that he was not able to respond "on these points", the investigations being still in progress.

France officially attributed Monday to a cyber unit reporting to the Revolutionary Guards of the Islamic Republic responsibility for the cyberattack which targeted, on the night of October 11 to 12, refrigeration controllers of supermarkets of around 700 mass distribution sites in France.

The Paris prosecutor's office requested the issuance of international arrest warrants against two leaders of this unit named Shahid Kaveh.

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