Iran's history of elaborate election interference efforts, before the Trump campaign hack

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Iran's history of elaborate election interference efforts, before the Trump campaign hack
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An Iranian propaganda video falsely depicts a cyber fraud operation.

On Friday, U.S. authorities accused three Iranian men of stealing and leaking files from former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, the largest “hack and leak” election influence operation since Russia’s breach of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Democratic organizations in 2016. Iran’s influence efforts using hacked material from the Trump campaign follow what the United States says was a series of brazen influence operations in 2020, all authorized by Tehran’s senior leadership.

The hackers, who the Justice Department said worked for Emennet Pasargad, an Iranian cybersecurity and information operations company that does work for the country’s government, staged a video that purports to show the operation, set to the Metallica song “Master of Puppets.

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