U.S. imposes sanctions targeting Russia and Iran over 2024 election interference
washington — The U.S. Treasury Department and State Department announced Tuesday that the Biden administration is imposing new sanctions on Russian and Iranian entities over their attempts to interfere in the 2024 election.
Specifically, the U.S. Treasury Department is targeting the Center for Cognitive Design Production, a subsidiary of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise and its director, Valery Mikhailovich Koro. Valery Mikhaylovich Korovin, as well as key Russian affiliates, imposed new sanctions. Intelligence Bureau.
Bradley Smith, acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, said, “The governments of Iran and Russia have targeted our election processes and institutions and sought to divide the American people through targeted disinformation campaigns. “
U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said sanctions This builds on the efforts aimed at undermining Iranian and Russian efforts to undermine confidence in democratic institutions.
“These actors sought to stoke sociopolitical tensions and undermine our electoral institutions during the 2024 U.S. election,” Miller said in a statement.
The U.S. Treasury Department said Russian entities used generative artificial intelligence tools to create disinformation and spread it on websites designed to create false corroboration between stories. The U.S. Treasury said Russia also manipulated the videos for its own benefit.
The Treasury Department said Iran used social engineering to gain access to people who could directly participate in the presidential campaigns of both parties, something the United States warned earlier this year was happening.
This designation means that all property and interests of affected targets in the United States or under U.S. control will be blocked and must be reported. The new sanctions come as President Joe Biden is wrapping up his agenda and less than three weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
On the eve of the election, the Biden administration warn Several countries, including Russia, Iran and China, attempted to improperly influence the U.S. election. In July, CBS News reported that U.S. intelligence Iranian conspiracy discovered Assassinate Trump. Trump orders 2020 Air strikes kill people Iran’s supreme commander, General. Elder Soleimani.
Moscow has long sought to use covert foreign influence operations and cyber operations to attack U.S. national security interests, particularly in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.
