KH's official channel Al-Ittijah TV published, under the rubric "the demands of the Iraqi people", a statement from Dhargham al-Karaawi, identified as head of the Kataib Hezbollah representation office in Diwaniyah, that the future of the resistance's weapons cannot be discussed until the conditions of Haj al-Assaf are fulfilled; the conditions themselves are not specified in the post. Five minutes earlier, Shafaq News published an exclusive headline describing "managing the weapons" instead of removing them as a Shia settlement on the table of al-Zaydi and the factions. The two lines address the same Iraqi weapons question from different sides, but neither text refers to the other and no faction in the collected material accepts or rejects the reported settlement.
- Shafaq News19 Aug, 20:30
“(Exclusive) "Managing the weapons" instead of removing them: a Shia settlement on the table of al-Zaydi and the factions.”
(خاص) "إدارة السلاح" بدلاً من نزعه.. تسوية شيعية على طاولة الزيدي والفصائل
- Al-Ittijah TVKH — official owned media19 Aug, 20:35
“The head of the Kataib Hezbollah representation office in Diwaniyah, Dhargham al-Karaawi, to Al-Ittijah: the future of the resistance's weapons cannot be discussed until the conditions of Haj al-Assaf are fulfilled.”
مسؤول ممثلية كتائب حزب الله في الديوانية ضرغام الكرعاوي لـ(الاتجاه): لا يمكن الحديث عن مستقبل سلاح المقاومة إلا بعد تحقق شروط الحاج العساف
The public KH position is that the weapons question is not open for discussion until an unspecified threshold is met, which sets a bargaining floor ahead of any arrangement of the kind Shafaq News describes.