Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official owned media) published a quote this morning from Muhammad al-Asadi, identified as a member of the Kataib Hezbollah representation office in Maysan, stating that disarmament is an American demand rather than a measure to complete sovereignty, and that the resistance fighters are the ones who created that sovereignty. The item is a single quote on the group's own channel, carried in the window at 06:45. No other channel in the collected evidence carries the statement, and no independent account of the remarks is in hand.
- Al-Ittijah TVKH — official owned media22 Aug, 09:45
“Disarmament is an American demand, not [a step] to complete sovereignty; rather, the resistance fighters are the ones who created it.”
نزع السلاح هو مطلب أميركي وليس لاستكمال السيادة بل المقاومون هم من صنعوها
a comparable formulation from AAH, KSS, Nujaba or Badr channels; a Kataib Hezbollah statement at leadership level rather than provincial-representative level; an explicit rejection of a named Iraqi government disarmament or weapons-monopoly step; or a rebuttal from the marjaiya or the Iraqi government. Any of these moves this file.