Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official owned media) aired on 29 July, on its programme "Jumla Mufida," the words of Mahdi al-Kaabi: "Expelling the Saudi ambassador from Iraq and withdrawing the Iraqi ambassador from Riyadh is the simplest government response (absat radd hukumi)." The post names no triggering incident and cites no other faction or state figure; no Iraqi government statement on Saudi diplomatic representation was supplied. The same channel carried the "Israeli alert" text within the hour, and Al-Ahad TV and Al-Ghadeer TV carried Nineveh funerals attributed by AAH to an "American-Saudi aggression" — but no supplied evidence links al-Kaabi's demand to those posts, so the connection is not established here.
A named faction spokesman prescribing a specific diplomatic act sets a public benchmark against which the government's handling of the Saudi file can be measured by the same channels.