On the evening of 8 August, Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) published a news card quoting al-Kaabi that diplomacy with Saudi Arabia is ineffective and that disciplining Riyadh will only come through "an appropriate military response", headlined "missiles are not answered except with missiles". Visual review of the accompanying image shows a man in clerical dress kneeling beside a large finned cylindrical object being adjusted, with the channel's logo overlaid. The item names no Iraqi group as the actor and gives no timetable, target or claim of an attack, and it is the only such call in the collected window.
- Watan TVBadr Organization — affiliated09 Aug, 00:13
“"Missiles are not answered except with missiles" — Al-Kaabi: the diplomatic option with Saudi Arabia is ineffective, and disciplining it will only be through an appropriate military response.”
"الصواريخ لا تُرَد إلا بالصواريخ" الكعبي : الخيار الدبلوماسي مع السعودية غير مجدٍ وتأديبها لن يكون إلا بردٍ عسكري مناسب
A Badr-affiliated outlet and an AAH-owned outlet are publicly on opposite sides of whether Iraqi factions may use force against a Gulf state, which is a divergence between two of the largest tracked networks rather than a single channel's rhetoric.