Claim emerges at a time when the U.S. has output increased information of interference in its presidential election by other nations.
The Iranian regime has hacked Trump’s campaign, claimed the US presidential candidate.
The campaign team of the Republican nominee released a statement on Saturday night late indicating that the Iranian government hacked and copied internal sensitive documents.
The allegation came following Microsoft’s publication of a report on how the foreign actors sought to influence this year’s campaign in the US.
The campaign team was able to point to past shenanigans between Trump and Iran but was short of proof.
Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “These documents were obtained illegally from sources within the hostile foreign nations in order to influence the 2024 presidential election and destabilize America’s democratic institutions.”
On the night of Saturday, Trump shared in his Truth Social application that Microsoft approached the campaign and said that Iran made an attempt at hacking one of its sites, but all they were able to access were the public records.
A Politico report a day before the accusation revealed that an informed source had offered to give information to the US publication about Trump’s operation, which included a document on JD Vance, the senator from Ohio, who was Trump’s pick for the vice presidency.
A representative of the National Security Council stated in a comment that any report of the influence of the foreign state is taken seriously, and the NSC regards it as a violation of the principles of democracy and perverts any organization that tries to interfere in the internal affairs of the United States.
A Microsoft report detected and elaborated that the ‘foreign malign influence concerning the 2024 US election began slowly and has increased in the last six months, although the initial phase was Russian influence, and lately it is Iranian operation.’
When approached by a press center for Iran via email, the permanent mission of Iran to the United Nations in New York stated that the Iranian government does not have any involvement in the United States presidential election.
