WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran is complicit even though the United States has no intelligence or evidence that points to Iran’s direct participation in attacks in Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, a White House spokesperson said on Monday.
“Iran has long supported Hamas and other terrorist networks throughout the region with resources capabilities training,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on MSNBC.
“And so in that regard, clearly, Iran is complicit here, but in terms of specific evidence on this, these sorts of attacks, no, we don’t have anything,” he said.
According to reports, the Islamic Republic of Iran authorized the broad-scale strikes on Israel last week by Palestinian terrorists.
Hamas had already acknowledged that Iran had provided funding for the attack, and the Wall Street Journal reports more information and was corroborated by other officials.
The article further stated that officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps collaborated with Hamas and other Islamic terrorist organizations to organize the attacks, which included launching tens of thousands of missiles into Israel and launching a land, sea, and air invasion.
Following the attacks by Hamas, at least 2,500 Israelis have been injured and about 800 Israeli deaths have been officially acknowledged along with at least nine Americans confirmed killed.
(Reporting by Jasper Ward; Editing by Eric Beech)
