Republican presidential candidate in the US elections Donald Trump Of Election campaign Officials in the past Iran and has accused Tehran of hacking some of his internal communications (emails) without providing any evidence, citing differences between the former president.
According to Reuters, the Trump campaign’s statement came shortly after a report by the news website Politico, which said it was told in July by an anonymous source who offered documents from inside Trump’s team. E-mails began to arrive, including a report about the ‘possible weaknesses’ of Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump’s campaign, said in a statement: ‘These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the aim of interfering with the 2024 election and disrupting our democratic process. .’
Reuters did not independently identify the alleged hackers or confirm their motivations.
The Trump campaign cited a report Friday by Microsoft researchers that said hackers linked to the Iranian government tried to hack into the account of a “senior official” during the US presidential campaign in June. .
Hackers hacked the account of a former political consultant and then used it to target the official, the report added. The report did not provide further details on the identification of the targets.
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A Microsoft spokesman declined to name the officials targeted or provide additional details after the report was published.
Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations has said in an email that “the Iranian government has neither the intention nor the intention to interfere in the US presidential election.”
In response to allegations from Donald Trump’s campaign, the email added: ‘We place no credence in such reports.’
In response to Microsoft’s findings, Iran’s UN mission told Reuters on Friday that the country’s cyber capabilities were “defensive and proportionate to the threats it faces” and that it had no plans to launch cyber attacks.
Relations with Iran were strained during former President Donald Trump’s presidency. During this period, the US killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and withdrew from Iran’s multilateral nuclear deal.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: ‘The Iranians know that President Trump will stop their terror, just as he did in his first four years in the White House.’
Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in July. Although the suspected attacker has no ties to Iran, US news TV channel CNN reported last month that the US had intelligence about an Iranian plot against Trump, while Iran has denied these allegations.
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