On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned entities in Iran and Russia that attempted to interfere with the 2024 election.
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’s largest foreign-intelligence agency.
“The Governments of Iran and Russia have targeted our election processes and institutions and sought to divide the…
