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DUBAI: Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday that gasoline distribution is returning to normal a day after a cyberattack which affected 4,300 gas stations across the country. The details of the attack and its source are under investigation, Abul-Hassan Firouzabadi, the Secretary of the Supreme Council to Regulate Virtual Space, told the news agency.
A cyberattack which disrupted the sale of heavily subsidised gasoline across the Islamic Republic was designed to create "disorder and disruption", Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said on Wednesday.
An attack on systems that govern fuel subsidies in Iran reportedly hit all fuel stations and left many of the country’s citizens without gas for hours. Islamic