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New23 Aug, 16:42 BAGHDAD

KH channel puts tribes and Karbala street against disarmament

WHAT HAPPENED

Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official owned media) posted two correspondent reports on 23 August within nine minutes of each other: one from Diyala saying the province's tribes warn against yielding to American pressure to withdraw the resistance's weapons, carried under the channel's own quoted banner "it threatens escalation"; the other from Karbala reporting popular demands to reject tampering with the security of Jurf al-Nasr. Both rest on a single channel's own correspondents, with no named tribal body, no named official, and no outside coverage available to the desk — which is why this sits at the lower rungs of the ladder.

WHO CARRIED IT · EVERY MESSAGE, LINKED
  1. Al-Ittijah TVKH — official owned media23 Aug, 16:34

    "It threatens escalation" — Al-Ittijah's correspondent in Diyala: the province's tribes warn against yielding to American pressure to withdraw the resistance's weapons.

    "تهدد بالتصعيد" — مراسل (الاتجاه) في ديالى: عشائر المحافظة تحذر من الخضوع للضغوط الأميركية لسحب سلاح المقاومة

  2. Al-Ittijah TVKH — official owned media23 Aug, 16:42

    Al-Ittijah's correspondent in holy Karbala: popular demands in the province to reject tampering with the security of Jurf al-Nasr, liberated from terrorism.

    مراسلة (الاتجاه) في كربلاء المقدسة: مطالبات شعبية في المحافظة برفض العبث بأمن جرف النصر المحرر من الإرهاب

In posting order. Translated by the desk, published as evidence — not endorsement.
WHY IT MATTERS

KH's owned media is building a case that removing resistance weapons and touching Jurf al-Nasr both run against local will, which is the ground on which any state or coalition move on either file would be contested.

THE MESSAGE IN FULL · THE DESK’S OWN COPY
View the original message (Arabic)مراسلة (الاتجاه) في كربلاء المقدسة: مطالبات شعبية في المحافظة برفض العبث بأمن جرف النصر المحرر من الإرهاب #قناة_الاتجاه #للحقيقة_اتجاه_واحد
Kept as posted — a channel can delete a message; this copy stays.