Er staan een aantal belangrijke nuances en details in dit artikel.
Niet alleen de VS komt tot deze conclusie, ook IL en 'regionale bondgenoten':
The United States, Israel and key regional allies have not found evidence that Iran directly helped plan the attack, according to the U.S. officials and another official in the Middle East.
Details over de kringen waar men bronnen heeft:
While they would not identify the Iranian officials who expressed surprise at the attack, the U.S. officials said they were people who typically would be aware of operations involving the Quds Force, the Iranian government's paramilitary arm that supports and works with proxy forces.
Ook zeggen ze dat het onderzoek hierover nog doorgaat en dat men open blijft staan voor signalen die iets anders lijken te beweren:
U.S. officials said the intelligence investigation was continuing and could turn up evidence that Iran or other states were directly involved in the Hamas operation. Senior officials said they were keeping an open mind, reviewing old intelligence reports and looking for new information.
Want het is vooral
het gebrek aan bewijs dat deze stelling onderbouwt:
The United States and its allies regularly track and monitor meetings between Quds Force leaders and their proxies and allies, including Hamas. But officials say there is no evidence that those meetings were used to plan the attack in Israel. While officials concede that there could have been other secret meetings that Western intelligence did not track, for now they have found no evidence of such meetings.
Het geheel heeft opmerkelijk genoeg geen invloed op het standpunt dat Iran wel betrokken is:
“We have said since the beginning: Iran is complicit in this attack in a broad sense because they have provided the lion’s share of the funding for the military arm of Hamas,” he said. “They have provided training, they have provided capabilities.”
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He slaat hierbij op Jake Sullivan, national security adviser.)
De 6 miljard USD die vorige maand unfrozen waren kunnen nog steeds nav deze ontwikkelingen weer bevroren worden. Ze zijn nog niet aangeraakt:
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen did not rule out the possibility of reversing a decision made last month to unfreeze the $6 billion in Iranian funds if it is determined that the country was involved in the attack by Hamas. Ms. Yellen said the funds had not yet been touched.