Iran is 'increasingly aggressive' in its operations to target US presidential campaigns: Intel community

The intelligence community said it has observed "increasingly aggressive Iranian activity" during the 2024 election cycle, involving influence operations targeting the American public and presidential campaigns.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Monday that Iran "seeks to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions."

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"Iran has furthermore demonstrated a longstanding interest in exploiting societal tensions through various means, including through the use of cyber operations to attempt to gain access to sensitive information related to U.S. elections," the agencies said in a joint-statement. "In addition to these sustained efforts to complicate the ability of any U.S. administration to pursue a foreign policy at odds with Iran’s interests, the IC has previously reported thatIran perceives this year’s elections to be particularly consequential in terms of the impact they could have on its national security interests, increasing Tehran’s inclination to try to shape the outcome."

The intelligence community said it has observed "increasingly aggressive Iranian activity" during the 2024 election cycle, specifically involving "influence operations targeting the American public and cyber operations targeting presidential campaigns."

"This includes the recently reported activities to compromise former President Trump’s campaign, which the IC attributes to Iran," they said.

The FBI has been investigating Iranian cyber hacking attempts against Trump’s presidential campaign, after Politico began receiving internal