Late last month, U.S. prosecutors charged three Iranians — Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yaser Balaghi — with using the same tactics in a wide-ranging campaign that compromised the email accounts a former State Department official, a former presidential Homeland Security adviser and at least two former CIA officials.

Iran is ramping up efforts to interfere with the US election with fake "news" websites and hackers targeting Donald Trump, American officials and researchers say, as the Republican nominee reported threats on his life from the Islamic republic.

Federal prosecutors in the United States have today filed criminal charges in the case. The hackers had allegedly targeted members of former president Donald Trump's campaign.

DUBAI: Iran has emerged as a twofold concern for the United States as it nears the end of the presidential campaign. Plots Against US Prosecutors allege Tehran tried to hack figures associated with the election,

Iran saw the value and the danger of hacking in the early 2000s, when the Stuxnet virus, believed to have been deployed by Israel and the U.S., tried to damage Iran's nuclear program. Since then, hackers attributed to state-linked operations have targeted the Trump campaign,