Iran rejects US allegations of election meddling as ‘hackneyed, groundless’

Iran has rejected as "hackneyed and groundless" the US administration’s claims of Tehran’s interference in the forthcoming American election.

“Once again, we consider these hackneyed allegations to be groundless, biased, and to serve domestic political purposes in the United States, and we reject such accusations,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani said on Friday. 

The comment came after US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and some other American spying agencies accused certain countries, including Iran, of engaging in efforts to influence the outcome of the US presidential vote in November by conducting cyberattacks.

Kan'ani stressed that US officials, unable to heal rifts and settle their country’s internal problems, which have structural, political and social roots, seek to shift the blame on others by leveling accusations against various countries.

“The US government, which spearheads illegal interference in the internal affairs of the other independent states and has a long list of such destructive measures on its record, cannot attribute its domestic problems and crises to other countries by making accusations against them or covering up the dark record of its extrajudicial actions and interference in the internal affairs of the independent states,” Kan'ani added.

Garland recently accused Iran of "aggressive" actions aimed at swaying the November election in the US, citing what he claimed as intelligence reports.

In a joint statement last month, the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also claimed that Iran was taking measures to target political campaigns and American public with cyber and influence operations.

Iran rejects claims about hacking Trump’s presidential campaign

Iran’s UN mission rejects claims about hacking the campaign of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying the Islamic Republic attaches no credit to such accusations.

Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations rejected at the time the “unsubstantiated” allegations of efforts to interfere in the 2024 US presidential election.

“Such allegations are unsubstantiated and devoid of any standing. As we have previously announced, the Islamic Republic of Iran harbors neither the intention nor the motive to interfere with the US presidential election,” the Iranian mission in New York said.

Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations had earlier made clear that the country had no goal or interest in "cyber activities" to influence the upcoming US presidential election.

The US presidential election will be held in November, pitting former US president Donald Trump against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, with the latter commanding a marginal lead in the latest polls.

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