On 26 July at 13:58 UTC, Watan TV, an outlet aligned with the Badr Organization, published that "all military formations and security agencies enter Alert (C) as of Tuesday 7/28 and until further notice to secure the Arbaeen pilgrimage" (دخول كافة القطعات العسكرية والأجهزة الامنية الانذار (ج) اعتبارًا من يوم الثلاثاء 7/28 وحتى اشعاراً آخر لتامين الزيارة الاربعينية). Visual review of the attached image shows two armed personnel in desert camouflage and tactical gear beside barbed wire in a street with civilians carrying flags; the visual identification of unit or affiliation cannot be confirmed and no audio was assessed. The text is phrased as a security-sector order rather than as a Badr Organization statement, and available evidence does not identify the issuing authority. No other tracked actor was observed carrying this announcement in the collected window.
Arbaeen security duty gives factions embedded in the state a lawful, nationwide reason to place armed personnel on routes, checkpoints and city approaches for an undefined period, and control of the announcement channel is itself a marker of who administers that deployment.