Iran is meddling in America’s presidential election

Published August 8, 2024 3:52pm ET



U.S. intelligence officials have recently revealed that Iran is trying to undermine former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign through covert online influence operations and fake personas. Department of Justice officials have now arrested operatives looking to assassinate Trump and others. These reports should have been met with an outcry from the press and public that an adversary was trying to tip the scales of a presidential contest. Instead, they have been met with silence.

What can be done to stop Iran? First, we need immediate transparency from the intelligence community to identify which social media accounts have been run by Iranian operatives. These accounts, posing as American activists, are backing anti-Israel protests. The regime is even providing financial support to demonstrators. The public deserves to know if that includes the vile protests we saw outside Union Station during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress. The public should be informed on an ongoing basis when and where the Iranian government is meddling.

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