Iran Press/America: “Iran hacked into my campaign. I don’t know what the hell they found. I’d like to find out, couldn’t have been too exciting, but they gave it to the Biden campaign. I can’t believe it – oh yes I can,” he said.
US federal law enforcement officials claimed that Iranian hackers had "actually interfered" in the election by sending confidential internal documents from Trump campaign headquarters to the Democratic Party.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a joint statement that in late June and early July, Iranian malicious cyber actors “sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” CNN reported.
There is no indication that Biden’s staff ever replied, the statement says.
A spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign said that “a few individuals were targeted on their personal emails.”
“We have cooperated with the appropriate law enforcement authorities since we were made aware that individuals associated with the then-Biden campaign were among the intended victims of this foreign influence operation,” said Morgan Finkelstein, national security spokesperson for the Harris campaign.
“We’re not aware of any material being sent directly to the campaign; a few individuals were targeted on their personal emails with what looked like a spam or phishing attempt. We condemn in the strongest terms any effort by foreign actors to interfere in U.S. elections including this unwelcome and unacceptable malicious activity.”
The Trump campaign said in a statement that Harris and Biden “must come clean on whether they used the hacked material,” claiming it’s “further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election” to help the Democratic ticket.
Before this, the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the United Nations had emphasized that "such claims are baseless and without any basis" regarding the claim of American intelligence and cyber institutions regarding Tehran's involvement in the 2024 US presidential election. As we have already announced, Iran has no purpose or motivation to interfere in the American elections.
The representative of Iran in the United Nations added that we strongly deny such accusations and if the American government is really looking for the truth, it should provide us with its substantiated documents officially and transparently to receive a proportionate and accurate answer. 204
