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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Background29 Jul, 22:26 BAGHDAD

KH channels relay Trump remarks on striking Iran in identical wording

Unit 10,000 and Sabereen News (both KH — affiliated) published identical relays of remarks attributed to "the criminal Trump" about striking Iran and intercepting five rockets

WHAT HAPPENED

Sabereen News (KH — affiliated media) and, roughly a minute later, Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated media) posted textually identical items headed "the criminal Trump on Iran," carrying quoted lines: "we will strike them with force, because our turn has come to strike them"; "they know this will happen, and they are asking us not to do it"; "last night they tried to launch five rockets at us, and we intercepted them all." The framing attributes the first-person words to Trump, so the threat and the interception claim belong to the quoted speaker, not to KH; the only KH contribution in the cited text is the epithet "the criminal." No supplied outside reporting confirms the underlying remarks or the rocket launches, and no other tracked actor is observed carrying this item in the collected window.

WATCH

Watch: an Iraqi factional commentary that treats these quoted lines as the trigger for its own action, or outside reporting establishing the remarks and the launches; either moves this file.

EVIDENCE · INTERCEPTED CHANNEL MESSAGE
View the original message (Arabic)🟡المجرم ترامب بشأن إيران • سنضربهم بقوة، لأن دورنا قد حان لضربهم. • إنهم يعلمون أن هذا سيحدث. ويطلبون منا عدم القيام بذلك. • الليلة الماضية، حاولوا إطلاق خمسة صواريخ علينا. وقد اعترضناها جميعاً.
Published as evidence, not endorsement