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U.S. would participate in negations and return to the nuclear deal if evidence is found that Iran helped plan the brutal attacks against Israel.
The White House has refused to answer questions on the future of U.S.-Iran relations in light of the war between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House at least three times this week inquiring if the U.S. would participate in negations and return to the nuclear deal if evidence is found that Iran helped plan the brutal attacks against Israel. The White House's press office ultimately referred Fox News Digital to the National Security Council Monday, which did not respond to the inquiry.
News broke Sunday that Iranian security officials allegedly approved Hamas' plan to attack Israel during a meeting in Beirut last Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Hamas and Hezbollah leaders said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps worked with Hamas since August on air, land and sea attack plans.
Following the report, U.S. leaders said they have not found direct evidence of Iran planning the attacks in coordination with Hamas but noted that Iran has long supported Hamas, and the nation holds "a degree of complicity" in the attacks.
"We are looking through the information streams. We haven’t seen hard, tangible evidence that Iran was directly involved in participating in or resourcing and planning these sets of complex attacks that Hamas pulled off over the weekend," Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council John Kirby said Tuesday, something echoed later on in the day by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who again stressed that the U.S. has no evidence that Iran knew about the attacks in advance or that it helped Hamas.
Both Sullivan and Kirby's comments this week echo what a U.S. official told Fox News Digital on Sunday evening, that "of course" Iran is in the picture, but that U.S. officials currently do not have information corroborating the report.
When asked specifically about the future of the U.S. relationship with Iran, however, the White House has not said if leaders would return to the negotiating table for the Iran nuclear deal or if the U.S. strategy with Iran will change in light of terrorist leaders claiming Iran helped with the attacks.
Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this update.
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