<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2766">sanctioned</a> entities in Iran and Russia that attempted to interfere with the 2024 election.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The two entities sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) include the Cognitive Design Production Center (CDPC) a subsidiary organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, and the Center for Geopolitical Expertise (CGE), which directed and subsidized “the creation and publication of deepfakes and circulated disinformation about candidates in the U.S. 2024 general election.” CGE is a Moscow-based affiliate organization of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). The GRU is Russia&#8217;s largest foreign-intelligence agency.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The Governments of Iran and Russia have targeted our election processes and institutions and sought to divide the American people through targeted disinformation campaigns,” said Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Bradley T. Smith. “The United States will remain vigilant against adversaries who would undermine our democracy.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Last September 27, OFAC <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2621">designated</a> seven individuals working with Iran who had attempted to interfere with the 2024 election.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The Kremlin has increasingly adapted its efforts to hide its involvement by developing a vast ecosystem of Russian proxy websites, fake online personas, and front organizations that give the false appearance of being independent news sources unconnected to the Russian state,” the Treasury Department noted.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“CGE built a server that hosts the generative AI tools and associated AI-created content, in order to avoid foreign web-hosting services that would block their activity,” the Treasury Department stated. “The GRU provided CGE and a network of U.S.-based facilitators with financial support to: build and maintain its AI-support server; maintain a network of at least 100 websites used in its disinformation operations.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the designated persons described above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked,” the Treasury Department concluded.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The week of the 2024 election, federal law enforcement officials foiled a second alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against multiple individuals who were involved in plots to murder an Iranian dissident, two Jewish Americans, and Trump on U.S. soil.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-murder-hire-and-related-charges-against-irgc-asset-and-two">said</a> Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Ryan Saavedra contributed to this article.</em></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-disrupt-iranian-assassination-plot-on-trump">Feds Disrupt Iranian Assassination Plot On Trump</a></strong></p>

<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script async src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script>
<script async src="https://www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div data-widget-host="revcontent" data-pub-id="165152" data-widget-id="290588"></div><script src="https://delivery.revcontent.com/165152/290588/widget.js"></script>

Treasury Department Sanctions Iranian, Russian Entities For Interference In 2024 Election

California CEO Arrested For Smuggling U.S. Tech To Iran’s Nuclear Program

Fetterman Says There’s One Thing Trump Can’t Afford To Do On Iran

The Chilling Six Seconds Before A Great-Grandmother Was Butchered On A Train

Bernie Sanders Wants To Cripple America’s AI Advantage

Man Vs. Machine: Red State Slaps OpenAI With Monster Lawsuit

Trump Taps Familiar Name To Replace Tulsi Gabbard

News

2024 Election

Elections

Iran

Russia

Treasury Department

World

A video goes viral showing a baby being refused his mother by two gay "dads". This is just the tip of the iceberg, which is why we will have an important discussion today about surrogacy. 

Hour 1

The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 1765 - This Video Is One Of The Worst Things I've Seen In A Long Time 

The Strait of Hormuz officially opens for business (kind of), the Pope makes “shocking” comments on immigration, and President Trump promises UFO disclosure at TPUSA. 


The Michael Knowles Show

Ep. 1956 -  Pope Leo's "SHOCKING" Immigration Comments EXPLAINED

A false miscreed has corrupted our leadership class.


The Andrew Klavan Show

Ep. 1275 - Dumb, Dumber and Progressive

President Trump announces a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, a murder-suicide involving former Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax shakes Virginia, and France and Britain hold a conference to secure the Strait of Hormuz – after the Iranian conflict ends. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.

- - -

Ep. 2738

- - -

Wake up with new Morning Wire merch: https://bit.ly/4lIubt3

- - -

Today's Sponsors:

Alliance Defending Freedom - Visit https://JoinADF.com/WIRE or text 'WIRE' to 83848 to learn more.

Pocket Hose - Text MORNING to 64000 to get a FREE pocket pivot and their 10-pattern sprayer with the purchase of ANY size Copper Head hose. Message and data rates may apply.

Morning Wire

U.S. Expands Hormuz Blockade & VA Fairfax Deaths Investigated | 4.17.26

U.S. Expands Hormuz Blockade & VA Fairfax Deaths Investigated | 4.17.26 [Member Exclusive]

A ceasefire goes into effect between Israel and Lebanon, a tragic murder-suicide rocks Virginia, and Dairy Queen deploys AI in the drive-thru. Get the facts first with Evening Wire.
- - -
Ep. 2737
- - -
Wake up with new Morning Wire merch: https://bit.ly/4lIubt3 
- - -
Today’s Sponsor:

Alliance Defending Freedom - Visit https://JoinADF.com/WIRE or text “WIRE” to 83848 to learn more.


Evening Wire: Lebanon Ceasefire Begins & Murder-Suicide Rocks VA | 4.16.26

The Pendragon Cycle

Menu

— News —

Treasury Department Sanctions Iranian, Russian Entities For Interference In 2024 Election