Iran is the victim of a cyberattack that has affected the fuel distribution system

This Mars Iran has been the victim of an unprecedented cyberattack due to its great scope, which has managed to paralyze the distribution of gasoline. Until now, it is still unknown who the perpetrators of this attack against the country are.

It must be borne in mind that Iran is one of the few countries where fuel is abundant, but due to this attack, Iranian citizens have been surprised to see that their gas stations were progressively closing, and long lines were forming to be able to supply those that they were still in service.

On the other hand, the Supreme Council of National Security, who are the highest instance of the security of the Islamic Republic, have spoken before this fact to which they have said the following: "There has been a cyberattack against the computerized distribution system of gas".

This was reported by a state television channel, which minutes before had already announced the disturbances in the country's computer system. Through the television station they also reported that "the details of the cyberattack and its source are being investigated" without adding more details of the fact.

An attack on the gasoline supply

Without a doubt, one of the most affected sectors has been the distribution of gasoline, which has made this incident much larger. And it is that this attack has blocked the computer system that allows Iranians to buy the country's gasoline.

The purchase of fuel is made using a digital card that has been distributed by the authorities, so its use is impossible at this time.

Iran is currently one of the countries with the most oil reserves in the world, thus, by 2020 it ranked fifth as a producer within the "Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)".

This has become very unpleasant news for the population, taking into account that queues to supply fuel are not common in that country. This is how most drivers complained during long lines and through social networks.

Iran has turned into a mess

Fatemeh Kahi, who is the spokesperson for Iran's national society for the distribution of petroleum products, told the media that an urgent meeting was called to solve the gasoline problem.

As a solution measure, in Tehran, the technicians of the Ministry of Petroleum have deactivated the computer system in different service stations to be able to start distributing the fuel manually.

Those responsible for this cyberattack are still unknown

Until now, the Iranian government does not know who is responsible for this cruel attack. On the other hand, the conservative news agency Fars has linked this attack to the proximity of the second anniversary of the November protests that were caused by an increase in the price of gasoline.

This is how the agency has published the following note: "The campaign of the counterrevolutionary media as the date of the anniversary of the events of November 2019 approaches, they carry out these types of cyberattacks, so there is a possibility that they are who are behind all this. "

In the protests of 2019, several shops were looted and destroyed, while some gas stations and banks were burned, as well as different police posts were attacked by protesters. At that time, the authorities cut the internet for a week.

There will be no increase in the price of gasoline

In 2019 when the increase in gasoline was announced, the Iranian authorities spoke of at least 230 people killed during the protests, but according to the report of a group of experts of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, accounted for around 400 dead.

Without a doubt they were terrifying figures, many deaths during protests that were not peaceful at all. However, this time the Iranian government has tried to reassure the population and prevent a repeat of the events of November 2019.

This is how the Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi, declared to the media on Tuesday that the government is not considering an increase in gasoline, so the population does not have to worry.

In the case of Tehran, they believe that there is some possibility that the main culprits of this cyberattack could be Israel or the United States, who are its main enemies, so it does not rule out either of these two countries.

If we go a little to the past, in September 2010, the Iranian nuclear program was attacked by the Stuxnet virus, which caused many failures in its centrifuge park to enrich uranium at that time.

Last year, in May, Washington newspapers announced an Israeli cyberattack against one of the ports of Bandar Abas, an Iranian city in the Strait of Hormuz, this as a retaliatory measure for an attack on civilian hydraulic installations. In Israel.

The truth of all this is that said cyberattack has seriously affected the population to supply gasoline. It is expected that this Wednesday the Iranian authorities will have in their hands the main responsible for this event that has seriously affected the country.