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[Text/Guaguanwang Liu Chenghui] It’s another year of US elections, and another year of “foreign interference.” Reuters quoted a US intelligence official on July 29 as saying that “enemies of the United States” are expected to adjust their influence operations based on changes in the US election situation, and unidentified foreign actors are paying special attention to “events related to this month’s election.”

The report believes that although the official did not say it explicitly, he was obviously referring to President Biden's withdrawal from the election. US intelligence agencies expect that "foreign forces" will refocus their influence operations on Vice President Harris.

"We expect these actors to adapt these events and incorporate them into their influence narratives to try to undermine democratic institutions," the U.S. intelligence official said.

In briefing reporters, officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence cited reports from non-governmental organizations that "foreign actors" have used the assassination of former President Trump "as part of their narrative."

A senior intelligence official also claimed that according to the intelligence community's assessment, Iran and Russia are targeting the same parties as in the past, "Iran is trying to overthrow Republican candidates, and Russia is trying to discredit the Democratic Party."

U.S. President Biden and Vice President Harris attended the Independence Day celebration in Washington on July 4, 2024 local time. Reuters

The Russian embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations denied in an email that it was involved in any “activities aimed at influencing the US elections” and said many such allegations “are psychological operations aimed at artificially hyping the campaign.”

"Foreign interference" is a repertoire of every US election. As early as May this year, Averell Haines, the US Director of National Intelligence, hyped that more and more foreign forces are seeking to influence the US election at the end of this year. Russia, Iran and other countries are the main actors trying to influence the US election. With the development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, foreign forces are increasingly trying to interfere in the US election.

At the end of last month, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov said in response to reporters' questions about the first debate of the US presidential election that Russian President Putin had no particular interest in the debate. He stressed that Russia has never interfered in US election campaigns and will not make any assessments on this now.

Peskov told reporters that domestic electoral politics in the United States "is not a priority on our agenda in any way." "This is an internal affair of the United States, an American election campaign. We have never interfered in American election campaigns and we do not intend to do so now."

According to the Russian Satellite News Agency on the 28th, Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev said on the Russian Channel One program that Russia will not interfere in the US election campaign.

"This is an internal matter of the United States, who they are going to elect - Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, etc. For us, it doesn't make any sense. We'd better just be spectators because they will say again that we interfered in the election and influenced the election, but this is not true," he said.

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