Iran Hacked Trump Campaign Then Passes It to the Media

Everything that was claimed about Russia’s election interference is actually true of Iran.

A good way to look at Iran and election interference is that everything that was claimed about Russia’s election interference was actually true of Iran.

In 2021, I wrote about Iran’s interference in the 2020 election to help Biden.

Iranian hackers had tried to pass themselves off as members of the Proud Boys in a false flag operation designed to increase Democrat turnout and generate an election backlash to President Trump. One example of the Iranian campaign involved sending emails to “tens of thousands of registered voters” that threatened them “with physical injury if they did not change their party affiliation and vote for President Trump.”

Right before the election, Biden released his list of fundraising bundlers. In an exclusive story, Front Page Magazine’s investigation revealed that they included Jamal Abdi, the executive director of NIAC Action. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), often described as the Iran Lobby, claimed its members had run phone banks and donated $385,000 to Biden.

NIAC Action had endorsed Biden and declared, “our long, national nightmare is almost over. AP has called the race for Joe Biden”.

The Iranians are getting a little more ambitious in 2024. Beyond trying to assassinate former President Trump, they’re trying to do the kind of thing Qatar has become infamous for, hacking Republicans and then ‘leaking’ the materials to the media. (I wrote about Qatar’s hacking and the media’s complicity here.)

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that some of its internal communications had been hacked.

The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation.

The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.”

“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Cheung said. “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.”

The Iranians may have used broken English, but they seem to be quite aware of how to talk to the media.

Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”

Note the broken English in the first part of that sentence and the nicely worded “legally restricts you from publishing them.” There’s a lawyer involved on one end of that operation. Any guesses if this was coordinated with NIAC or any Iranian operatives in America? Or just legal advice from their Qatari allies?

If we’re to believe Politico, the Iranians got hold of Vance’s vetting file.

The media being what it is today, expect it to get out and be used before long despite the fact that it was stolen by an enemy state for the purposes of interfering in the election.

After 2016, there was a wild goose chase for the Russians who ‘somehow’ rigged the election. The Iranians are doing this in plain sight. Will there be any action taken against media outlets who aid an enemy nation’s election interference campaigns?

And what does it mean that the ‘Death to America’ regime has made its political preferences clear?

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