White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said no current intelligence suggests Iran was directly linked to Hamas’ attacks on Israel.
A senior White House official on Wednesday defended the Biden administration’s response to Iran, while admitting Tehran’s “broad complicity” in Hamas’ attack on Israel.
John Kirby, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, also said there was no intelligence to date suggesting Iran was directly linked to Saturday’s attack.
“Nobody has turned a blind eye to Iranian destabilizing behavior,” Kirby said. “We’re obviously recognize that there’s broad complicity here by the Iranians, I mean, because of the longstanding support to Hamas. Hamas wouldn’t have been able to function at all had it not been for propping up by the Iranian regime. But we haven’t seen any specific evidence that tells us they were wittingly involved in the planning or involved in the resourcing and the training that went into this very complex set of attacks over the weekend.”
Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressed Kirby on how the Biden administration would define a “direct link” between the Hamas attack on Israel and Iran. In response, Kirby noted what White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Tuesday.
