Iran would much prefer Kamala Harris as president than they would Donald Trump, according to the US intelligence community.

They say Iran is working against Trump’s candidacy, trying to undermine it using social media.

Here’s the report from CNN:

Iran is using covert social media activity and related influence operations in an effort to undercut the candidacy of former President Donald Trump, a US intelligence official said Monday in an updated assessment of threats to the November election.

The US intelligence community has “observed Tehran working to influence the presidential election, probably because Iranian leaders want to avoid an outcome they perceive would increase tensions with the United States,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said in a statement.

The recent Iranian influence activity has come in the form of “covert social media accounts and related activity,” the official from ODNI said at a media briefing when CNN asked for examples of the activity.

Iran’s preference for a US presidential candidate has not changed since 2020, the ODNI official said. In the 2020 election campaign, Iran “carried out a multi-pronged covert influence campaign intended to undercut former President Trump’s reelection prospects,” according to a declassified US intelligence report.

“Iran does not engage in any objectives or activities intended to influence the U.S. election,” the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a statement to CNN. “A significant portion of such accusations are characterized by psychological operations designed to artificially pep up election campaigns.”

As president, Trump ordered the killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, and withdrew from a multilateral deal aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program. Iran has vowed revenge for Soleimani’s death.

The alleged Iranian threats to the Trump candidacy have not just been online.

US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president, CNN first reported on July 16. There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, was connected to the Iranian plot.

Iran has denied the assassination plot allegations.

“Iranian leaders want to avoid an outcome they perceive would increase tensions with the United States”…what a lame response. Iran doesn’t want Trump because they don’t want an increase in US tensions with Iran. They know Trump is very pro-Israel and he doesn’t mess around with them. He took out Soleimani the last time he as president and they’ve been trying to kill him since.

So yes, they would much prefer Kamala to Trump and I hope she relishes in that endorsement.