Michael Bouchard: “There's a huge Iranian presence [in Iraq].”

“So I was an intelligence officer by trade. Okay. And so one thing that we had to do was is to figure out how to negotiate the terrain in Iraq. And There's a huge Iranian presence [in Iraq]. And for anybody who doesn't know, PMF popular mobilization forces are the militias that we were talking about that are Iranian aligned. Okay.” (03:09–03:12)

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