US Says Iran Launches Cyber Attacks Against Presidential Candidates

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Worthy News) – As the Democratic National Convention began, the United States said Monday that Iran was responsible for hacking into former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign and trying to breach the Biden-Harris campaign.

Additionally, the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies concluded that Iran’s cyber operations targeted the American public with influence operations aimed at fanning political discord.

“We have observed increasingly aggressiveIranian activity during this election cycle,” said a statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Their remarks confirmed charges made earlier this month by the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Trump that Iran hacked one of its websites, triggering an FBI investigation.

At that time, Trump said Iran was “only able to get publicly available information.”

Iran, the U.S. statement said, also has targeted the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is to officially accept the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination at this week’s convention.

It comes at a sensitive time when both campaigns try to formulate a policy toward Israel and the Middle East, where the U.S. military tries to avoid a broader armed conflict between Israel and Iran and Iran-backed groups.

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