Blinken says U.S. has ‘not yet seen’ evidence of Iran involvement in Hamas attack on Israel
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it is not clear there was any involvement by Iran in the weekend attack by Hamas on Israel.
Iran has long been a supporter of Hamas, the group designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, whose attack on Saturday left at least 250 in Israel dead.
“We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a long relationship,” Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Some Republican leaders have pointed to Iran as a cause of the attack. Rep Michael McCaul (R-TX) said later on CNN that “we do know that Iran was behind this” but did not specify whether he was talking about specific information on this weekend’s attack or just the country’s historic support of Hamas in general.
