Iran has condemned sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on six Iranians and one company for alleged interference in the 2020 presidential campaign. 

On Thursday the Treasury Department announced the designations of Iranian cybersecurity company Emennet Pasargad and six Iranians it said took part in a cyber campaign “to intimidate and influence American voters, and otherwise undermine voter confidence and sow discord.” 

The Justice Department also unveiled criminal charges against two of the sanctioned Iranians, Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian, who are accused of hacking the computer system of an unidentified US state and downloading data on more than 100,000 of that state’s voters. Prosecutors accused them of posing as the white nationalist Proud Boys group and sending thousands of threatening emails to registered Democrats, as well as illegally gaining access to a US media company’s computer network.

In a statement posted to Twitter on Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh described the administration’s sanctions against the alleged Iranian cyber actors as "not legitimate."