Biden admin says no 'specific evidence' Iran directly linked to Hamas attack on Israel: 'Broad complicity'

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said no current intelligence suggests Iran was directly linked to Hamas' attacks on Israel.

"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."  Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

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. 

"We haven't seen anything that tells us they knew specifically date time, method that they were that they were witting to this it. We haven't seen anything that tells us they specifically cut checks to support this set of attacks or that they were involved in the training and that obviously this required quite a bit of training by these terrorists or that they were involved in any directing of the operation," Kirby said Wednesday. "We're not one and done here either. We're going to continue to look at the intelligence stream and see if it leads us to a different conclusion. All I can do is be honest with you about the conclusions we're coming to today, and we just haven't seen that."