The militia parliamentary voices put a condition on disarmament this evening. Falih al-Khazali, head of the KSS' Muntasirun bloc, said across three segments on Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) that the bloc backs confining resistance weapons to the state only after the army is strengthened and against guarantees that Turkish forces leave Iraq — a condition Baghdad does not control — while insisting handover and stripping are different things. He put the toll from American attacks at 108 martyrs among the security forces, said Washington prevents the arming of the Iraqi army, and said Saudi Arabia had achieved its aim of internal division; he also endorsed the prime minister's Washington visit. Within the same hour, a text in the name of Akram al-Kaabi, secretary-general of Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (Iran-aligned Iraqi armed faction), went out on three Nujaba channels inside about half a minute rejecting the premise, arguing that Iraqi compliance over the Popular Mobilization Forces rests on American receipt of Iraqi oil proceeds and calling confronting the American project a duty the resistance has taken on.
The Nujaba text names no target and carries no claim of an attack.
In the militia space, Asaib Ahl al-Haq routed its answer to the strikes on Popular Mobilization Forces headquarters — which its channels attribute to Saudi and American forces, with no militia claim of retaliation — entirely through Iraqi state machinery. Al-Ahad TV reported that the Sadiqoun bloc had begun procedures to summon the prime minister, the defence and foreign ministers and the security commanders over what it calls Saudi-American aggression, and demanded the foreign ministry call in the Saudi ambassador. Bloc chief Adi Awad said on the same channel that the attacks cannot be covered under any pretext, and the bloc separately equated any strike on official PMF headquarters with aggression against the Iraqi state and its sovereignty. All of it rests on Asaib Ahl al-Haq's own broadcaster; the underlying attacks are not described in the collected material.
Still in the militia space, the same camp split over whether Baghdad knew the strikes were coming. Al-Ahad TV reported First Deputy Speaker Adnan Faihan directing a fact-finding committee and a one-week government report on the government's alleged prior knowledge, and Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) then reported parliament had formed it; in the same half-hour Sabereen News (KH — affiliated) carried a Popular Mobilization Commission statement condemning "in the strongest terms" the same accusation levelled at its chairman Falih al-Fayyadh as baseless, naming no politician. Sadiqoun deputy Jasim Muhammad told Al-Ahad TV that the government did have advance knowledge and that its investigations have produced nothing, while in the same appearance saying the bloc does not believe Trump's statement that Baghdad was informed. The Commission's rejection of the accusations against al-Fayyadh was also reported outside the militia channels; the foreknowledge claim itself has no outside coverage in the window.
On the PMF file, two Popular Mobilization Forces statements on the same casualties appeared twenty minutes apart on rival faction outlets. Al-Ahad TV carried the PMF saying Battalion 4 of Brigade 30 had not taken all the established precautionary measures, which led to the largest number of its members being killed during the attacks, and that an investigation had been opened with those responsible. Sabereen News had earlier carried a PMF line that protecting its personnel remains the leadership's foremost responsibility and that it would not let their sacrifices become material for political bidding. No PMF-owned channel in the collected set carried either statement, and the casualty event is described only in these two texts.
On the legislative front, the same demand to pass the PMF service and retirement law ran across four networks this afternoon and evening, credited to different people by each. Four Badr- and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada-linked channels carried the call within about half an hour, with Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi and iNEWS (both KSS — affiliated) naming Khazali's Muntasirun bloc, Watan TV (Badr — affiliated) attributing it to bloc leaders in the plural and alone specifying the service and retirement law, and Badr's official Al-Ghadeer TV leaving the source unnamed. Al-Ahad TV twice carried Faihan calling passage an entitlement owed to the martyrs and wounded and added that the speakership backs the bill, a line Al-Ittijah TV's report on the parliamentary signature drive did not carry; Al-Janoub TV (Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official) carried its own MP calling the law a top priority. The speakership's backing was reported outside the militia channels; no referral, scheduled vote or bill text appears anywhere in the material.
On the domestic front, this morning's anti-corruption thread widened past provincial officials to former ministers, and the militia channels' silence on the arresting authority ended with the courts naming themselves. A Baghdad appeals court issued two arrest warrants for former Labour Minister Ahmed al-Asadi, former finance minister Taif Sami was summoned in the widening probe, and the state put recoveries at 390 billion dinars, $141 million and 500kg of gold. Meanwhile Al-Ghadeer TV ran five cabinet decisions as official statements inside six minutes without adding a word of Badr comment, four of the five shifting authority from ministries toward governorates, including a bar on the Oil Ministry approving private-generator fuel quotas without reference to Baghdad Governorate.
THINGS TO WATCHSadiqoun's summons of the prime minister and ministers is actually heldmedium likelihoodhigh impactAsaib Ahl al-Haq's channel says the bloc has begun procedures to host the prime minister, the defence and foreign ministers and the security commanders over the strikes, an event that either takes place in parliament or does not.
The one-week government report on prior knowledge is deliveredmedium likelihoodmedium impactAl-Ahad TV reported First Deputy Speaker Adnan Faihan setting a one-week deadline for the government to report on its failure to take measures before the strikes, which falls inside the window.
The PMF service and retirement bill reaches parliamentmedium likelihoodhigh impactFour networks carried the demand that the government refer the bill and Al-Ahad TV said the speakership wants it sent in the coming days, yet the material records no referral, vote date or bill text.
A PMF-owned channel publishes on the Battalion 4 casualtiesmedium likelihoodmedium impactBoth statements on the deaths reached readers only through Asaib Ahl al-Haq's and Kataib Hezbollah's outlets, and the investigation announced with those responsible would normally produce a PMF-owned publication.
Nujaba names a site or timetable in its own voicelow likelihoodhigh impactThe text in Akram al-Kaabi's name calls confronting the American project a resistance duty but names no target and carries no attack claim, so any move from doctrine to a specified target would be visible on Nujaba's own channels.