Three Iranian nationals have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of attempting to interfere in the 2020 US presidential election. The indictment alleges that the hackers, employed by Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, targeted voter registration databases and attempted to spread disinformation.
The indictment comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran as Iran -backed Hezbollah and Israel escalate attacks against each other.The latest action, coupled with sanctions and rewards for information leading to the hackers' capture, is the latest U.S. government effort to call out what’s seen as Iran ’s attempts to interfere in the election by damaging Trump and sowing general chaos.
The three accused hackers were employed by Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Since 2020, their operation sought to compromise the email accounts of a broad swath of targets, including a former ambassador to Israel, a former CIA deputy director, officials at the State and Defense departments, a former U.S. homeland security adviser and journalists, according to the indictment.
Multiple major news organizations that said they were leaked confidential information from inside the Trump campaign, including Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post, declined to publish it. Politico has reported that it began receiving emails on July 22 from an anonymous account. The source — an AOL email account identified only as “Robert” — passed along what appeared to be a research dossier that the campaign had apparently done on the Republican vice presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. The document was dated Feb. 23, almost five months before Trump selected Vance as his running mate.
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