On Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official), Sadiqoun General Council member Ahmed Adnan said the statement responding to Saudi Arabia "does not represent all of the Coordination Framework of Resistance" and that weapons control is an Iraqi decision to which everyone must submit

In a #Nisf_Daira block aired on Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) shortly before 19:00 on 5 August 2026, Ahmed Adnan of the Sadiqoun Movement's General Council said the statement issued in response to Saudi Arabia did not represent the whole Coordination Framework of Resistance, that weapons control is an Iraqi decision unconnected to any external position, that everyone must submit to it, and that any response must come from within state institutions including the PMF. Two further guests in the same block took different lines on the same incident: political researcher Mukhalad Hazim said the targeting was an American rather than a Saudi desire and that it was wise not to respond, while Reconstruction and Development Coalition figure Khalid Walid said his side is proceeding with the government on state monopoly of weapons and that a deterrence policy must be present. The rung holds on the actor's own official channel carrying all three positions within forty-two seconds of each other; no outside corroboration of the underlying incident is in hand.