Us Election Russia Iran

Iran and russia seek to influence election in final days u s.

Us election russia iran. President trump has pursued an aggressive policy against iran. Emails from a far right group linked to donald trump threatening to come after us voters if they don t vote for him are actually from iran the fbi has said. In 2016 russia tried to influence the us presidential election this year it s iran according to us security officials.

With a little over 100 days before the november election and concerns about election interference mounting u s. Last month the director of us counterintelligence had said that foreign states will continue to use covert and overt influence measures in their attempts to sway the voters preferences and perspectives singling out russia china and iran. National counterintelligence and security center director william evanina issued a.

As the united states prepares for 2020 presidential elections the ghosts of foreign interference continue to shadow the electoral process. Iran has not figured as prominently in the us election as russia or china both in terms of its possible influence or in policy. Us director of national intelligence john ratcliffe said on wednesday oct 21 that russia and iran have both tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.

Cnn director of national intelligence john ratcliffe said wednesday both iran and russia have obtained us voter registration information in an effort to interfere in the election including iran. Officials warn iran is behind threatening spoofed emails sent to voters the officials said but there was no indication that any.