Between 22:52 and 23:09 on 30 July 2026, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) posted three segments of its programme "Half Circle". In the first, parliamentary security committee member Waad al-Qadu is quoted under the headline "his links to Saudi Arabia and Qatar are known" ("ارتباطاته بالسعودية وقطر معروفة"), described as rising against al-Khanjar for "justifying the aggression against Iraq" and warned that "the next turn may be his, from the same quarter"; on-screen text in the same segment carries al-Qadu saying Iraq is militarily weak as a state in the region and that "the blood of the martyrs will have positive returns for Iraq". In the third, Ali al-Fatlawi, described as a leader in the Reconstruction Coalition, is headlined saying "the Shia actor alone is oppressed" ("الفاعل الشيعي وحده مقهور"), pointing to the absence of denunciation of the Saudi aggression from "a part of the political system", and wishing that the Popular Mobilization Forces leadership would prosecute al-Khanjar. Both posts carry the channel's "right of reply is guaranteed" tag; no other tracked faction was observed carrying or answering these segments in the collected window.
An AAH-owned broadcaster publicly directing the PMF leadership to take legal action against a named political figure moves faction rivalry onto state machinery, which is the arena where these disputes are settled between attacks.