Between 11:16 and 11:33 on 22 August, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) posted eight sequential breaking-news cards carrying statements attributed to a speaker named Fayhan on the Popular Mobilization Forces law. He said Law 40 gave the PMF legal legitimacy but contained no articles on service, retirement or structure; that personnel are treated as contract workers; that a single point of disagreement — giving the prime minister a legal basis to extend the PMF chairman's service contrary to retirement rules — stopped the law in parliament; and that founding brigades and regiments for political and electoral purposes is rejected, with the PMF having become "like a Kia truck in elections." The supplied evidence does not state Fayhan's faction, and the channel's AAH ownership does not establish it.
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:16
“Fayhan: Law 40 granted the PMF legal legitimacy but included no articles on service, retirement or structure.”
فيحان: قانون 40 منح الحشد الشعبي الشرعية القانونية لكنه لم يتضمن أي مواد بشأن الخدمة والتقاعد والهيكيلة
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:18
“Fayhan: Legislating a law regulating the work of PMF personnel has become an urgent necessity.”
فيحان: تشريع قانون تنظيم عمل منتسبي الحشد الشعبي أصبح ضرورة ملحة
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:20
“Fayhan: PMF personnel are treated as contract workers; service, retirement and structure must be legislated.”
فيحان: منتسبو الحشد الشعبي يُعاملون كعقود ولا بد من تشريع قانوني الخدمة والتقاعد والهيكيلة
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:22
“Fayhan: A single point of disagreement prevented passage of the PMF law in parliament.”
فيحان: نقطة خلافية واحدة منعت تمرير قانون الحشد في البرلمان
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:24
“Fayhan: The point of disagreement was giving the prime minister a legal basis to extend the service of the commission's head, contrary to retirement rules.”
فيحان: نقطة الخلاف تمثلت بإعطاء رئيس الوزراء مصوغ قانوني لتمديد خدمة رئيس الهيئة خلافا لضوابط التقاعد
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:26
“Fayhan: Brigades and regiments were founded for political and electoral purposes — the PMF has become like a "Kia" truck in the elections!”
فيحان: تأسست ألوية وأفواج لأغراض سياسية وانتخابية.. والحشد الشعبي أصبح كعجلة "الكية" في الانتخابات!
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:28
“Fayhan: Founding brigades and regiments in the PMF for political and electoral purposes is rejected.”
فيحان: تأسيس ألوية وأفواج في الحشد الشعبي لأغراض سياسية وانتخابية أمر مرفوض
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:31
“Fayhan: Some political blocs share and agree with the Sadiqoun bloc on legislating the PMF law.”
فيحان: بعض الكتل السياسية تشترك وتتفق مع الصادقون في قضية تشريع قانون الحشد
The disputed clause is named specifically — extending the PMF chairman's service past retirement rules — which locates the blockage in leadership tenure rather than in the PMF's legal status, and the electoral-formations complaint puts a faction channel on record against parts of the PMF's own order of battle.