iNEWS published on 13 August at 22:03 a statement attributed to Muhammad Najji, head of the Badr Organization political office, rejecting any forced surrender of resistance weapons by the prime minister or anyone else. Najji said the state is not an enemy of the resistance and the resistance is not a substitute for the state, warned the prime minister against going too far in accommodating the United States at the expense of national fundamentals, and said weapons consolidation must proceed calmly and with the full agreement of the resistance leaders, conditioned on three factors. The rung is credible rather than higher: the wording is specific and detailed and nothing in the retrieved evidence contradicts it, but it reaches the desk through a KSS-linked channel rather than a Badr channel, and Badr's own outlets in this window carried the Anbar clash instead.
- iNEWSKSS — affiliated14 Aug, 01:03
“We will not allow the prime minister or anyone else to force the surrender of the resistance's weapons by force… Weapons consolidation must be conducted calmly and with the full agreement of the resistance leaders… There are three factors for weapons consolidation: the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces, the removal of the strategic threats facing Iraq, and the full building of the Iraqi armed for”
لا نسمح لرئيس الوزراء أو غيره بفرض تسليم سـلاح المقـاومة بالقوة… حصر السـلاح لا بد أن يكون بشكل هادئ وبتوافق كامل مع الإخوة قادة المقـاومة… هناك ثلاثة عوامل لحصر السـلاح هي: الانسحاب الكامل للقوات الأميركية، وزوال المخاطر الاستراتيجية التي تهدد العراق، وبناء القوات المسلحة العراقية بشكل كامل وخاصة على مستوى الدفاع الجوي
A senior Badr political figure has publicly defined the terms on which the largest state-embedded faction would accept weapons consolidation, with U.S. withdrawal as the first of them.