Iran has said in the past few years that it is on high alert for possible cyber attacks, which it blames on the United States and Israel.
At the same time, the United States and other Western countries accused Iran of trying to disrupt and break into their networks.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said last week that the cyber attack, which disrupted the sale of heavily subsidized gasoline in the country, was aimed at creating “chaos”.
The disruption of fuel services, on Tuesday, came ahead of the second anniversary of bloody protests in Iran due to a significant increase in fuel prices in November 2019 that turned into political protests in which the demonstrators demanded the resignation of the regime.
Jalali said that based on the completed investigations, Iran became “certain” that the United States and Israel were behind the cyber attacks on Iran’s railways in July and the Rajaei port in May 2020.
On Saturday, the Iranian news agency IRNA said about half of Iran’s 4,300 petrol stations had been reconnected and the sale of heavily subsidized fuel had resumed.
Hours after the cyber attack, petrol stations gradually reopened, but could only be operated manually to sell more expensive fuel.
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