Press reports published at 07:20 and 07:21 this morning carry Muqtada al-Sadr blaming "reckless" militias for attracting the deadly strikes on the Popular Mobilization Forces, framed against renewed regional pressure on Iraq. Roughly half an hour later, Sabereen News (KH — affiliated media) relayed the Popular Mobilization Forces funeral notice attributing the same deaths to "the treacherous American–Saudi aggression" against Iraqi security forces. The supplied material contains only headline-level reporting of al-Sadr's words; no full text and no Sadrist channel statement is in hand, and no tracked faction channel in the collected window responded to him.
Opening the record…