State Department: Cuba Is Aiding Iran, Hamas, Other Jihadis in the West

In this Breitbart article, staff writers detail a new State Department report accusing communist Cuba of serving as a force multiplier and concierge service for Iran, Hamas, and other jihadi groups seeking to undermine the United States.

• The 100-page State Department report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” charges the Cuban regime with helping America’s enemies spread influence throughout the Western Hemisphere.
• After the Soviet Union’s collapse, Cuba expanded its alliances beyond traditional Marxist groups to include hostile nation-states and terrorist organizations such as Iran and Hamas.
• Cuban intelligence now funnels information collected by its agents inside the United States to adversarial states including China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
• Cuba acts as a “staging ground” and “concierge service,” providing foreign adversaries access to domestic influence networks and facilitating contacts with American groups and movements.
• Cuba developed ties with Palestinian terrorist organizations in the 1960s, trained their fighters in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to host an office of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Havana.
• Some of the fighters trained by Cuban operatives belonged to Marxist-Islamist groups that participated in the October 7, 2023, atrocities against Israeli civilians.
• Cuban ambassadors have met with Hamas officials, including a meeting with the Cuban ambassador to Lebanon just eight months before the October 7 attacks.
• With Cuban assistance, groups such as Hamas and the PFLP have built influence networks spanning more than 86 countries, including the United States, often using antisemitism to radicalize young people.
• Despite its economic collapse, the Cuban regime’s fundamental objective remains a hemispheric Marxist revolution aimed at erasing the United States.

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https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2026/07/21/state-department-cuba-is-aiding-iran-hamas-other-jihadis-in-the-west/