DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran’s leader said on Wednesday that a cyberattack that paralyzed every gas station in the country was designed to get “people angry by creating disorder and disruption,” as long lines still snaked around the pumps a day after the incident began. Ebrahim Raisi’s remarks stopped short of assigning blame for the attack, which rendered useless the state-issued electronic cards that many Iranians use to buy subsidized fuel at the pump. However, they suggested that he and others in the theocratic regime believe anti-Iranian forces carried out an assault likely designed to inflame the country as the second anniversary of a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests over gasoline prices approaches. The attack on Tuesday also bore similarities to another months earlier that seemed to directly challenge the regime’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country’s economy buckles under American sanctions. On Wednesday morning, the state-run IRNA news agency …
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