Iran has no goal to accelerate cyber activities to influence US elections: UN mission
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations says the country has no goal or interest in "cyber activities" to influence the 2024 US presidential election.
“Iran does not have any goal or a plan for a cyber attack and it does not interfere in the US elections which is an internal issue of this country,” the mission said on Friday.
It vehemently rejected a report released on Friday claiming that Microsoft has identified a series of actions by Iranian cyber actors aimed at influencing the upcoming US election. These include email phishing attacks, fake news sites, and impersonating activists.
“Iran has been a victim of various cyber offensive operations against the country's infrastructures, public service centers and industries,” the mission said.
It emphasized that Iran's cyber power is defensive and proportionate to the threats posed against the country.
Late in July, Iran’s mission to the UN dismissed allegations that Tehran intended to disrupt the election and negatively affect it in favor of Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate.
The mission described a major part of such accusations as psychological operations to give false momentum to election campaigns.
Under the facile pretext of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the US and Mossad have been carrying out a campaign of sabotage and cyber attacks on Iran's civilian nuclear program for quite some time.
One of the most well known cyber attacks utilized the notoriously malicious Stuxnet worm.
In 2011, Tehran announced that an investigation had concluded that both the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet attack.
Israeli sabotage attempts against Iran’s nuclear program have miserably failed despite the regime’s assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists through unrelenting US support.
Mossad has assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists using methods ranging from magnetic mines attached to their cars and allegedly the use of a remote controlled robotic assassin.
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