Iranian bots and trolls are subtler than Russia's, according to researchers at the Atlantic Council.

Operations from Iran, Malaysia and Vietnam also were identified by the social media company's researchers.

Russia will "continue to do this in these election contexts, but in these other contexts, too," John Demers said Friday.

The message appeared during a particularly fraught geopolitical moment in the Persian Gulf.

One Twitter hashtag was mentioned 95,000 times in three days, after receiving zero attention in the prior month.

Many of the tweets spouting anti-Qatar and anti-Iranian messaging, often in Arabic.