The Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, has reportedly hacked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign.

Politico began receiving internal campaign documents from the campaign late last month from an anonymous AOL email account that used the name “Robert.”

The emails contained internal communications from a top Trump campaign official that included research the campaign did on Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and “potential vulnerabilities” that he may have. The research dossier was a preliminary version of the file that the campaign used to vet Vance, something that is standard practice in presidential campaigns.

When the publication asked the anonymous account how they received the documents, they responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”

Microsoft published a report this week that confirmed that Iran was interfering in U.S. elections, particularly in swing states, through highly targeted activity online designed to sway voters in those states.

Microsoft said that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign from the compromised email account of a former senior advisor.”

The company did not identify which campaign had been targeted, but a top Trump Campaign official said Saturday that the campaign was hacked and said that Iran was to blame.

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“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” said Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung. “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.”

“The Iranians know that President Trump will stop their reign of terror just like he did in his first four years in the White House,” he added.

Vance has also shown strength in describing what needs to be done to stop Iran’s reign of terror in the Middle East and around the world, telling Fox News last month: “A lot of people recognize that we need to do something with Iran—but not these weak little bombing runs. If you’re going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard.”

The hack lines up with other recent reports about how Iran is trying to meddle in the presidential race to stop Trump from winning.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said late last month that Iran was working to damage the Trump Campaign.

U.S. law enforcement has also been closely monitoring an attempt by Iran to assassinate the former president, CNN reported last month shortly after Trump survived being shot in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.

Federal authorities announced this week that they have arrested Pakistan national Asif Raza Merchant, 46, in New York on July 12 for attempting to carry out a murder for hire scheme that allegedly targeted Trump. Merchant had deep connections to Iran and had recently visited the country for a couple weeks prior to coming to the U.S.

A fighter who failed past gender eligibility tests won gold in the women’s Olympic featherweight final match on Saturday.

Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, 28, absolutely dominated 20-year-old fighter Julia Szeremeta of Poland, leaving the female fighter bloodied. Lin, who physically towered over Szeremeta, won the match in a unanimous decision.

“These two right now are not remotely on the same level,” one of the Olympic commentators noted during the match.

Lin is the second fighter who won gold in women’s Olympic boxing after gender tests revealed XY chromosomes, according to the International Boxing Association (IBA).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) permitted Lin to compete in the women’s division despite failed gender tests in 2019 and 2023. The Olympics’ gender eligibility standard for boxing is based merely on a fighter’s passport.

“As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams stated at a press conference.

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Adams also said that testosterone levels are not important to the IOC. “Many women can have testosterone which will be called ‘male levels’ and still be women and still compete as women,” he said. “This idea that you do one test for testosterone and that sorts everything out? Not the case, I’m afraid.”

The IBA, which the IOC no longer associates with, said two fighters, including Lin, were given gender tests after the IBA was made aware of concerns about safety from a number of fighters, coaches, and medical staffers.

“Both boxers were asked to take a further blood test,” IBA CEO Chris Roberts said at a press conference in Paris on Monday. “That happened the 23rd of March, the results came through and it demonstrated the chromosomes we refer to in competition rules that make both boxers ineligible.”

Roberts further explained that Lin had failed the chromosome test and was given the opportunity to appeal the findings to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The IBA offered to pay the majority of the appeal, he noted. Lin, though, never appealed.

IBA President Umar Kremlev has criticized the IOC for permitting Lin and another boxer named Imane Khelif to compete with women following the failed tests. He said in a press release that he doesn’t understand why the IOC is “killing” women’s boxing and emphasized that “only eligible athletes should compete in the ring for the sake of safety.”

The IOC is standing by its position, calling the IBA “not credible,” and shaming people who have questioned the gender issue on the basis of fairness and safety.

“We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” IOC President Thomas Bach said at a press conference last weekend. “What is going on in this context in the social media with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable.”

Related: Boxers Who Failed Gender Tests Make It To Gold Medal Match. Here’s What You Need To Know.