Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) reported this afternoon that Saoud al-Saadi, MP for the Hoquq parliamentary bloc, had completed a draft law to prosecute states supporting terrorism for crimes committed in Iraq — Saudi Arabia foremost among them — and had begun collecting MPs' signatures to place it on the agenda. The channel said the law aims at states and entities that supported, financed or hosted terrorism against Iraqis, to open a legal path to accountability and restitution for victims, drafted under Article 60/First of the constitution. The post carried a scanned letter to the Speaker of Parliament signed by al-Saadi as deputy head of the Hoquq bloc; visual review reads its date as 8 August 2023, which does not match the announcement, and the desk cannot resolve that from the supplied material.
- Al-Ittijah TVKH — official10 Aug, 16:23
“Completion of a draft law to prosecute states supporting terrorism for crimes committed in Iraq, foremost among them Saudi Arabia, and the beginning of collecting the signatures of members of parliament to place it on the agenda... Iraq will not treat the blood of its sons as forgotten files or crimes without a responsible party.”
إكمال مشروع قانون مقاضاة الدول الداعمة للإرهاب عن الجرائم المرتكبة في العراق، وفي مقدمتها السعودية، والبدء بجمع تواقيع أعضاء مجلس النواب لإدراجه على جدول الأعمال ... العراق لن يتعامل مع دماء أبنائه باعتبارها ملفات منسية أو جرائم بلا مسؤول
A bill naming Saudi Arabia as a defendant, if tabled, converts a faction accusation into an Iraqi state legal process, with consequences for Baghdad's dealings with Riyadh that no single channel's rhetoric carries.