The United States has imposed sanctions on two groups linked to Iranian and Russian efforts to target American voters with disinformation ahead of this year’s election.

Treasury officials announced the sanctions on Tuesday, claiming that the two organizations had tried to enliven the divisions among the Americans of the November vote. U. S. Intelligence has accused governments of spreading misinformation, adding false videos, news and publications on social networks, designed to manipulate the electorate and undermine accepts as true with the US elections.

“The governments of Iran and Russia have targeted our election processes and institutions and sought to divide the American people through targeted disinformation campaigns,” Bradley T. Smith, Treasury’s acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.

The government said the Russian group, the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise, has overseen the creation, funding and disinformation of disinformation on U. S. candidates, adding videos of deepfake created synthetic intelligence.

In addition to the organization itself, the new sanctions to its director, according to the WHO authorities, worked largely with the intelligence agents of the Russian army that also supervise the cyber attacks and the sabotage opposite to the West.

The authorities say that the center used AI to temporarily make false videos about US candidates, created dozens of fake news sites designed to look legitimate and even paid US Internet corporations. UU. To create pro-ruso content.

The Iranian group, the Cognitive Design Production Center, is a subsidiary of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, U.S. officials said, which the United States has designated a foreign terrorist organization. Officials say the center worked since at least 2023 to incite political tensions in the United States.

American intelligence agencies have blamed the Iranian government for trying to inspire demonstrations in the United States on the Israel war opposed to Hamas in Gaza. Iran has also been accused of having pirate the accounts of several senior existing and previous officials, adding upper members of the Donald Trump campaign.

In the months ahead of the election, U.S. intelligence officials said Russia, Iran and China all sought to undermine confidence in U.S. democracy. They also concluded that Russia sought to prop up the ultimate victor Trump, who has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggested cutting funds to Ukraine and repeatedly criticized the NATO military alliance.

Iran, on the other hand, tried to oppose Trump’s candidacy, officials said. The president-elect’s first administration put an end to a nuclear deal with Iran, reproduced sanctions and ordered the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, a law that will incite Iranian leaders to judge revenge.

The Russian and Iranian have rejected accusations that they sought to influence the final results of the 2024 elections.

“Russia has not and does not interfere with the internal affairs of other countries,” a spokesperson for Russia’s embassy in Washington wrote in an email Tuesday.

A message that remains with Iranian officials not without delay on Tuesday.