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France Warns Iran Against Further Nuclear Breaches

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani meet at the UN headquarters in New York, US. AFP file photo
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani meet at the UN headquarters in New York, US. AFP file photo
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France Warns Iran Against Further Nuclear Breaches

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani meet at the UN headquarters in New York, US. AFP file photo
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani meet at the UN headquarters in New York, US. AFP file photo

France's foreign ministry warned Iran on Thursday against taking further measures that could breach the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers and as a result jeopardize a diplomatic window opened with the arrival of a new US administration.

"To preserve the political space to find a negotiated solution, we call on Iran not to take any new measures that would further worsen the nuclear situation, already extremely worrying due to the accumulation of violations of the Vienna Accord, including the latest just reported by the IAEA," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said.

She was referring to a UN atomic watchdog report on Wednesday that said Tehran had carried out its plan to produce uranium metal. Iran has also warned it could block later this month short-notice inspections of its nuclear facilities.

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Iranian Operatives Charged in the US with Hacking Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign

Signage is seen at the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC, US, August 29, 2020. (Reuters)
Signage is seen at the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC, US, August 29, 2020. (Reuters)
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Iranian Operatives Charged in the US with Hacking Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign

Signage is seen at the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC, US, August 29, 2020. (Reuters)
Signage is seen at the United States Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC, US, August 29, 2020. (Reuters)

The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday against three Iranian operatives suspected of hacking Donald Trump's presidential campaign and disseminating stolen information to media organizations.

The Trump campaign disclosed on Aug. 10 that it had been hacked and said Iranian actors had stolen and distributed sensitive internal documents.

Multiple major news organizations that said they were leaked confidential information from inside the Trump campaign, including Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post, declined to publish it.

US intelligence officials subsequently linked Iran to a hack of the Trump campaign and to an attempted breach of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign.

They said the hack-and-dump operation was meant to sow discord, exploit divisions within American society and potentially influence the outcome of elections that Iran perceives to be “particularly consequential in terms of the impact they could have on its national security interests."

Last week, officials also revealed that the Iranians in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails containing excerpts of the hacked information to people associated with the Biden campaign. None of the recipients replied.

The Harris campaign said the emails resembled spam or a phishing attempt and condemned the outreach to the Iranians as “unwelcome and unacceptable malicious activity.”

The indictment comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran as Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel escalate attacks against each other, raising concerns about the prospect of an all-out war, and as US officials say they continue to track physical threats by Iran against a number of officials including Trump.