… encrypted channels, moving through underground networks of safe houses and finance and sustain their operations through transnational funds. And they work alongside hostile foreign states that share their mission. Like Iraq's Iranian proxy networks are increasingly intimately tied to leftist militant groups around the world. The Cuban regime's sprawling intelligence and ideological network helped to build the far left in our country and in our hemisphere. And it remains inextricably linked to the far left groups and movements across and beyond the West. (16:54–17:02)
CLAIM
Asserts that Iranian proxy networks in Iraq are linked to global leftist militant groups.
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