On 28 July, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) posted a graphic quoting national security advisor Qasim al-Aboudi: "Iran pledged to Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to help in confining weapons" (إيران تعهدت لرئيس الوزراء علي الزيدي بالمساعدة في حصر السلاح), with the secondary line on the graphic reading that "Iran is in harmony with confining weapons outside the state's framework in the hands of the Iraqi government." The position is the advisor's, relayed by AAH's channel, not an AAH statement, and the supplied evidence contains no Iranian confirmation and no external reporting of the pledge. Visual review confirms the text as an overlaid graphic claim with no depicted meeting or document.
If Iranian backing for weapons-confinement is being asserted publicly by Baghdad's national security adviser and circulated unchallenged on a faction platform, the factions lose the argument that disarmament is a foreign imposition against the wishes of their patron.