US Charges Three Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps with Hacking Trump’s Presidential Campaign

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – The United States last week indicted three members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps on charges of hacking Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and trying to interfere with the November 5 general election, Reuters reports.

The US Justice Department unsealed the charges against Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar Balaghi on Friday, September 27. The charges include wire fraud, identity theft, and computer fraud, Reuters said.

According to the indictment, the three men used fake email accounts to make Trump campaign officials think they were trust sources. The hackers then got officials to click on links that allowed them to steal emails and other internal documents, Reuters said.

The three men are currently in Iran and, for the time being are beyond the reach of the US Justice Department, Reuters said. However, US Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters Friday that international suspects have been arrested in the past, even long after the charges against them were made. “We will follow these people for the rest of their lives,” Garland said.

Iran insists the charges are baseless, but the Trump campaign announced it had been hacked in August. The campaign said no private information had been stolen, although several news outlets reported they had declined to publish internal Trump campaign documents that had been offered to the

“We are seeing increasingly aggressive Iranian cyber activity during this election cycle,” Garland said in his remarks Friday.

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