The United States assesses that Israel carried out the airstrike Monday in Damascus on what Iran has said was a consulate building, deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said on Tuesday.
"That’s our assessment, and it’s also our assessment that there were a handful of IRGC top leaders there. I can’t confirm those identities, but that’s our initial assessment right now," Singh said, referencing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Israeli government has not acknowledged carrying out the strike.
Singh said the Pentagon was "not notified by the Israelis about their strike, or the intended target of their strike, in Damascus." Israel denied the claim that the building hit was a consulate, saying Monday that it was a "military building of Quds forces," which is a unit of the IRGC.
Singh said that she couldn’t confirm what type of building was hit in the strike. "Again this was not a US strike so I don’t have a lot of details on what type of building that was. But no, we don’t support attacks on diplomatic facilities," she said.