Kataib Hezbollah's official Al-Ittijah TV published the full statement at 19:51 UTC on 27 July 2026 in the name of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq: it rejected what it called Saudi accusations that Iraq was "the source of the bombardment of its petroleum facilities in the Eastern Province and Riyadh," said such accusations were "an attempt to justify the inability to respond to the painful Yemeni strikes that reached the depth of their infrastructure," and stated "we in the Islamic Resistance direct to the Saudi regime a clear warning, announcing that any foolish Saudi action will be met with a harsh response, making them bite their fingers in regret," adding that Riyadh should lift "the unjust blockade on the Yemeni people." KH-affiliated Sabereen News reproduced the warning sentence as an excerpt "from a statement of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq" at 19:55, and KSS-affiliated iNEWS carried the same sentence as an urgent card at 20:00. The statement was issued in the name of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq; the available evidence does not identify which constituent group drafted it, and no official Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Badr Organization, Nujaba or Ansar Allah al-Awfiya channel was observed carrying it in the collected window. No external media reporting on the underlying Saudi accusations or the alleged strikes was available to the desk in this window.
An Iraqi armed-faction identity naming Saudi Arabia as a party that will be met with a harsh response widens the declared target set beyond U.S. forces and Israel, and it does so while Baghdad's government is not a party to the statement.