Al-Janoub TV carried government spokesman Haidar al-Aboudi's briefing at length on 10 August: the government had no knowledge or advance notice of the Saudi-American shelling of PMF headquarters; the prime minister tasked the Foreign Ministry with a UN Security Council memorandum; salaries are secured and reports of 40-day pay cycles are untrue; dialogues on placing weapons in the state's hands continue and the state is proceeding with its monopoly on force according to the timetable ending in September; the prime minister has again received an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia, with no date set and the matter under study with the Foreign Ministry; and Iraqi oil exports were harmed by the closure of Hormuz.
- Al-Janoub TVHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official10 Aug, 13:42
“Dialogues to remove obstacles on the file of confining weapons to the state continue, and the state is proceeding with its monopoly on force according to the specified timetable at the end of September… The prime minister has again received an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia and no date has been set so far.”
الحوارات لتذليل العقبات بشأن ملف حصر السلاح بيد الدولة مستمرة والدولة ماضية باحتكار القوة بيدها وفق الجدول الزمني المحدد في نهاية أيلول… رئيس الوزراء تلقى مجدداً دعوة لزيارة السعودية ولم يحدد موعدها حتى الآن
- iNEWSKSS — affiliated10 Aug, 13:49
“The prime minister tasked the Foreign Ministry with submitting a memorandum to the Security Council on the shelling of PMF headquarters.”
رئيس الوزراء كلف الخارجية برفع مذكرة الى مجلس الأمن حول قصف مقرات الحشـ ـد الشعـ ـبي
- Watan TVBadr Organization — affiliated10 Aug, 14:29
“The prime minister tasks the Foreign Ministry with submitting a memorandum to the UN Security Council on the Saudi-American shelling of PMF headquarters.”
رئيس الوزراء يكلف وزارة الخارجية برفع مذكرة إلى مجلس الأمن بشأن القصف السعودي الأمريكي على مقرات الحشد الشعبي
A faction-owned channel putting Baghdad's own disarmament deadline and a prospective prime-ministerial visit to Riyadh in front of its audience unaltered, on the same morning its network calls the strikes Saudi-American aggression, is the clearest measure available of how far the arms-monopoly file has been normalised in this media space.