Between 17:59 and 18:27 on 30 July, Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated), Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official), Sabereen News (KH — affiliated), Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated), Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official), Jehad Brothers Team (Nujaba — affiliated) and Al-Janoub TV (Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official) all posted the statement of Major General Ali Abdollahi, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Command: "the Americans and their mercenaries have realised today, to the depths of their being, that their coffins have become part of their equipment in the region," several adding the martyred commander's line that "the era of hit and run is over". Visual review of the accompanying graphics shows the Iranian national emblem, Persian text, War Message Center branding and Persian-calendar dating (read variously as 8 Mordad 1402 and 1405), indicating the item originated in Iranian messaging rather than with an Iraqi faction. No Iraqi channel in the window named an Iraqi target, timetable or operation alongside it, and no claim of responsibility for any attack on U.S. forces appears in the supplied evidence.
The escalation vocabulary in circulation this evening belongs to an Iranian commander, and the Iraqi contribution so far is carriage rather than an Iraqi-authored threat or claim.