Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday denied any Iranian involvement in Hamas’s shock weekend attack on Israel despite its strong support for the Palestinian militant group.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in a speech at a military academy, says that while Iran supports Palestine, “Zionists” and others are wrong to assume Iran was behind the attacks.

“The supporters of the Zionist regime (Israel) and some people in the usurping regime have been spreading rumours over the past two or three days, including that Islamic Iran was behind this action. They are wrong,” Khamenei said.