Iran’s oil minister on Sunday ordered his country’s energy sector to be on high alert to the threat of “physical and cyber” attacks.
Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said “it is necessary for all companies and installations of the oil industry to be on full alert against physical and cyber threats,” in a statement published on the oil ministry’s Shana website.
Zanganeh said precautions were needed due to American sanctions and the “full-scale economic war” that the Islamic republic accuses the United States of waging against it.
