Tehran 0
22 December 2020

The FBI announced that it had “highly credible information indicating Iranian cyber actors almost certainly were responsible for the creation of a website called Enemies of the People, which contained death threats aimed at U.S. election officials in mid-December 2020”. The website showed “an ongoing Iranian intent to create divisions and mistrust in the United States and undermine public confidence in the U.S. electoral process”, the bureau added. An Iranian official subsequently asserted that “Iran is not involved in inciting violence and creating unrest in the U.S.”.

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