Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) carried a two-part Popular Mobilization Forces Authority statement early this afternoon: the offices announced by the Interior Ministry, whose operators claimed PMF affiliation, have no connection to the Authority, and the closure operation was executed by the Authority's own General Directorate for Security and Discipline within the work of the standing weapons-registration committee formed by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Roughly ten minutes earlier the same channel reported Falih al-Fayyadh chairing a meeting of PMF leaders whose published takeaway was the necessity of complying with the commander-in-chief's directives and orders. The rung holds on a single affiliated carrier restating an institutional statement; no other tracked channel in this window's evidence carried either item, and no outside coverage of the closures appears in the supplied material.
- Watan TVBadr Organization — affiliated10 Aug, 15:42
“The fake headquarters announced by the Interior Ministry, whose operators claimed affiliation with the Popular Mobilization Forces Authority, have no connection whatsoever to the Authority... the closure and follow-up procedures were carried out in an operation executed by the Authority's General Directorate for Security and Discipline, within the work of the standing committee for weapons registr”
المقرات الوهمية التي أعلنت عنها وزارة الداخلية والتي ادّعى القائمون عليها انتسابها إلى هيئة الحشد الشعبي لا تمت إلى الهيئة بأي صلة ... إجراءات إغلاق هذه المقرات ومتابعتها نُفذت ضمن عملية نفذتها المديرية العامة للأمن والانضباط في الهيئة في إطار أعمال اللجنة الدائمة لحصر السلاح المُشكَّلة من قبل القائد العام للقوات المسلحة
- Watan TVBadr Organization — affiliated10 Aug, 15:51
“Al-Fayyadh chairs a meeting of Popular Mobilization Forces leaders: the necessity of complying with the directives and orders of the commander-in-chief.”
الفياض يترأس اجتماعاً لقيادات الحشد الشعبي: ضرورة الالتزام بتوجيهات وأوامر القائد العام
Claiming the enforcement action as its own keeps the PMF Authority positioned as an executor of the weapons-registration process rather than its subject, at a moment when that process is the live question about armed groups.