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Iran rejects claims of seeking to influence U.S. election

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Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S., July 27, 2024. /CFP
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S., July 27, 2024. /CFP

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S., July 27, 2024. /CFP

Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York has rejected claims by U.S. intelligence officials that Tehran has sought to influence the U.S. presidential election, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.

The remarks were made in a statement released on Monday after U.S. intelligence officials earlier in the day claimed that Iran was working to "influence the U.S. presidential election and undermine Donald Trump's bid to regain the White House," the report said.

Iran's permanent mission stressed that Tehran had no objective and undertaken no activity to influence the U.S. election, adding a major part of such accusations were within the framework of the "psychological operations designed to artificially pep up election campaigns" in the United States.

The U.S. presidential election is scheduled to take place on November 5, 2024.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency
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