Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrives to vote for the presidential election, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 28, 2024. Iranians voted Friday in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, with the race’s sole reformist …
Anti-Israel protests in the wake of the bloody Israeli clash with Hamas Palestinian militants in Gaza have sprung up on college campuses across the country, raising questions of free speech, behavior codes and antisemitism in their wake. Iranian intelligence officials are using social media platforms to adapt their cyber and influence-peddling activities as they have done in the past, including during prior election cycles, Ms. Haines said.
The intelligence they’ve gathered about Iran’s malign activities doesn’t mean all those protesting the war in the Gaza Strip are under Tehran’s control, Ms. Haines was quick to note.