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France Blames Iran for Fridge Sabotage as Schools Evacuate

November 12, 2026

France’s accusation that Iran’s IRGC-linked Shahid Kaveh unit hacked supermarket refrigeration in October — followed by arrest warrants and a summons for Iran’s ambassador — sits alongside bomb-hoax evacuations of Italian and UK schools and Irish warnings about Russian shadow-fleet activity near undersea cables. The same civilian systems that keep food cold, classrooms open, and data flowing are being treated as frontlines, while open-weight models from DeepSeek, GLM, and Mistral’s Le Chonk, plus “abliterator” releases, lower the technical bar for cyber operations. The through-line is the collision of state-linked sabotage, commercial IoT and cloud dependencies, and commodified hacking capability across Europe’s everyday infrastructure.

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France Blames Iran for Fridge Sabotage as Schools Evacuate

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