China News Service, Beijing, December 19 Tehran News: On the 18th local time, Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji confirmed that the temporary suspension of fuel at gas stations across the country that day was caused by a cyber attack.
Reuters, citing Iranian state television, reported that an attack on Iran's gas station system by a hacking group with "ties to Israel" was behind the chaos.
The hacker group claimed responsibility for the incident on social networks and called the cyberattack "in response to aggression by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its ** people in the region."
According to the report, the hacking group has claimed to have launched cyberattacks on Iranian gas stations, railway networks and steel mills in the past.
When asked about the cyber attack, Israeli spokesman Tal Heinrich said at a press conference on the 18th that Israel has nothing to say about Iran.
In October 2021, a number of gas stations in Iran suffered similar week-long damage, which the Iranian side blamed at the time on an externally launched cyberattack, AFP reported.