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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Iran alignment29 Jul, 14:33 BAGHDAD

Riyadh moves to the centre of Nujaba's demand list

Nujaba's 29 July 2026 statement made Saudi Arabia, not only the United States, the named object of its demands and its "heavy price" language, calling Riyadh "the head of the snake and the financier of terrorism against Iraq"

WHAT HAPPENED

The Harakat al-Nujaba statement of 29 July 2026, published on Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (Nujaba — official armed group channel), Noon Media (Nujaba — official social media channel) and Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official owned media), pairs "the brutal American occupation" with "the mercenary Saudi coalition" throughout, devotes its second demand to severing all forms of cooperation with "the criminal Saudi regime, which has proved to be the head of the snake and the financier of terrorism against Iraq and its people," and names "the tyrants of Washington and the Arabs of Saudi Arabia" jointly in the closing "heavy price" line. Sabereen News (KH — affiliated/aligned media) went further in its own words, describing the dead as "the martyrs of the Saudi-Wahhabi-American aggression against the Popular Mobilization." Kataib Hezbollah's Wasit representative, speaking to Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official owned media), referred to "the Saudi aggression" alone without naming the United States.

WATCH

Watch: whether Saudi-facing threat language spreads to Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada or Badr Organization statements; whether any subsequent claim names a Saudi rather than a U.S. facility; whether Iraqi officials respond to the demand to cut cooperation with Riyadh — any of these moves this file.

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