Between 20:45 and 21:26 on 2 August, channels tied to three separate factions all foregrounded Iraq's salary-funding and cash-liquidity crisis. Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) posted two consecutive segments from the same programme: Sadiqoun bloc member Qais al-Jawrani said there is a real crisis in salary funding, that the state has a hundred-percent deficit, that compulsory savings is an option on the table, and that salaries are nonetheless secured to the end of 2026; one minute earlier it had posted former Finance Committee member Mohammad al-Shabaki saying the Central Bank will not be able to fund salaries after the tenth month and the crisis may run six months. Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) ran a report asking what government solutions exist, and iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) framed the question as printing money or selling state assets. The rung is credible: four separate channel posts, timestamped, carrying the operative wording directly.
- Al-Ittijah TVKH — official02 Aug, 23:45
“The cash-liquidity crisis and delayed salaries raise serious questions about the government's solutions.”
أزمة السيولة النقدية وتأخر الرواتب تطرح تساؤلات جدية بشأن الحلول الحكومية
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official02 Aug, 23:54
“The Central Bank will not be able to fund salaries after the tenth month... the economic crisis may drag on and extend to six months.”
البنك المركزي لن يستطيع تمويل الرواتب بعد الشهر الــ 10 ... الازمة الاقتصادية قد تطول وتمتد لــ 6 اشهر
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official02 Aug, 23:55
“There is a real crisis in salary funding... "compulsory savings" is an option on the table for exiting the salary crisis... salaries are secured to the end of 2026... employee salaries are a red line for the Sadiqoun bloc.”
هناك ازمة حقيقية في تمويل الرواتب ... "الادخار الاجباري" خيار مطروح للخروج من ازمة الرواتب ... الرواتب مؤمنة لنهاية 2026 ... رواتب الموظفين خط احمر بالنسبة لكتلة الصادقون
- iNEWSKSS — affiliated03 Aug, 00:25
“Salary funding at stake: printing money or selling state assets?”
تمويل الرواتب على المحك.. طباعة الأموال أم بيع أملاك الدولة؟
AAH is the only one of the three attaching a bloc guarantee and an endorsement of arrests to the fiscal story, which distinguishes its position from the pure pressure framing carried by Al-Ittijah TV and iNEWS on the same night.