On the programme "Siyasi al-Ab'ad", Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) carried Hisham al-Husseini, deputy head of the Academy for Political Development and Good Governance, saying that any party attempting to respond to "the Saudi aggression" in a way that embarrasses the government must be dealt with as outside the law, and that the state is the party that owns the right to respond, with no single party able to monopolise it. The remarks were posted at 01:39 on 3 August 2026. The rung is held to what a single channel broadcast: the statement itself is directly quoted and on-screen, but no other channel in the collected window carried it and no supporting or contradicting outside coverage of the Saudi episode it refers to is in hand.
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media03 Aug, 04:39
“Hisham al-Husseini: Any party that tries to respond to the Saudi aggression and wants to embarrass the government must be dealt with as outside the law / al-Husseini: The state is the party that owns the right to respond, and no particular party can monopolise the response.”
هاشم الحسيني: اي جهة تحاول الرد على العدوان السعودي وتريد احراج الحكومة يجب التعامل معها كخارجة عن القانون / الحسيني: الدولة هي الجهة التي تمتلك حق الرد ولا يمكن لجهة معينة احتكار الرد
a named faction responding publicly to al-Husseini's "outside the law" formula; any claim of a strike on or from Saudi Arabia under one of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq or front brands; an Iraqi government statement adopting or rejecting the "state alone holds the right to respond" line; any of these moves this file.