Hours after the Iranian foreign ministry officially rejected any responsibility for grocery store refrigerators being hacked across the country, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi added insult to injury.
"Unable to manage fridges let alone addressing grievances of its people, French government is shifting blame for its failures onto others," Araghchi wrote on X.
Araghchi also added Iran did not use its power to support "massacres in Gaza or bombings of schools and hospitals."
On Monday, the Paris Prosecutor's Office said investigators had evidence Iran was behind the Oct. 11 hack, which significantly turned up the temperature in refrigerators and spoiled tons of food as well as causing about 20 fires. About 700 supermarkets across the country were targeted, the prosecutor's office said.
The Iranian foreign ministry, in its official statement Tuesday, said it "strongly rejects the baseless accusations made by the French government against Iran concerning alleged involvement in sabotage activities in France."
