'Links', sighs.

"Those words, written in the first hours of the bombardment of Iran, repeated the headline of an article to which he linked from Just the News, a Trump-friendly news site.

"Iranian intelligence sought to undermine Trump's re-election bid in 2020 through a variety of election influence efforts," the article said. It also said Iran worked against him in 2024, when he beat Kamala Harris at the polls.

This is the second military operation of the Trump administration where he alluded to allegations concerning the 2020 election.

He made similar comments on social media in January, days after Trump ordered the Delta Force "rendition" of Venezuela's president Nicols Maduro.

Trump reposted links that repeated discredited conspiracy allegations that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 election by controlling voting machines."

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"In spite of that, there is no known evidence that Iran really played a key role in Trump's 2020 election loss. But among believers, Iran is also a player in some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories."