The FBI rejected Garland’s claim about Iran’s meddling in the US election
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Rashatoudi, the representatives of American intelligence agencies contradict the baseless claim of the Attorney General of this country about Iran’s interference in the 2024 US presidential election. announced that they have not detected any foreign attempts to directly interfere in the November elections of this country.
Officials and representatives of the Office of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the FBI They have confirmed the news. However, these intelligence agencies claim that Russia, Iran and China are trying to influence public opinion and divide the American society!
In the course of the 2016 and 2020 elections, American intelligence agencies repeatedly claimed that Moscow used hackers. And launching an “information war” in an effort to throw votes in the basket of former US President Donald Trump. However, according to the report of Robert Meller, the special investigator investigating this case in 2019, all the mentioned claims were declared baseless.
An ODNI official said during a meeting with representatives of several intelligence agencies in Washington: We have no foreign actors. We have not identified that is seeking to interfere in the 2024 election process. Instead, the intelligence assessment shows that the adversaries have so far focused on using information and propaganda operations to shape voter preferences or undermine confidence in the ballot box!
American officials before and in the past years after making such claims did not bother to explain what they meant. from spreading lies and accusing Russia, Iran and China!
According to the US intelligence agencies, these three countries are suspected of trying to “split the American society for profit” They are themselves”! The ODNI official, without naming names, claimed that some other countries also intend to interfere in the American elections.
According to the official of ODNI, “Moscow is the main actor and the most active foreign threat against this year’s American elections”; Regarding Iran, American intelligence agencies claim that “this country is making more efforts than in the past to influence this year’s American elections”! On the other hand, they claim, China is more focused on influencing sub-candidate races at the state and local levels. According to these institutions, Beijing seeks to confront anti-China politicians and support pro-China politicians!
The Kremlin described Washington’s claims about Moscow’s attempt to interfere in the US presidential election as “ridiculous” and Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, also emphasized that Russia, like the United States, does not seek to interfere in the internal affairs of independent countries.
The claims of US intelligence officials about Iran have also been made after US Attorney Merrick Garland last week He claimed that some countries, including Iran, are trying to influence the process and results of the American elections. Nasser Kanani,
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic called these repeated claims “baseless, biased and having domestic political uses in America.” And strongly rejected these accusations.” Similarly, China has reacted to the US claims and accusations about election interference and has denied it.
