Hawzah News Agency- Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, the security official for Iraq’s Kata'ib Hezbollah, issued a significant statement reaffirming the movement's unwavering principles. He warned that the arms of the Resistance are an ideological issue and are not subject to compromise under any circumstances. In part of the statement, he explicitly declared: "We may organize these arms, but we will not hand over even a single bullet."
The Kata'ib Hezbollah security official identified the defense of the Iraqi nation's interests, support for the Islamic Republic of Iran which he termed the "fortress of the Islamic Ummah" and backing for the peoples of Palestine, Yemen, and Lebanon as the immutable principles of the Resistance. This stance comes at a time when the issue of "restricting arms to state control" has become a central pillar of the Iraqi government's agenda, alongside mounting political pressure to integrate armed groups into official state structures.
In previous similar statements, al-Assaf had conditioned the surrender of arms held outside official state institutions on the complete and genuine withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, guarantees against their return, and the liberation of Iraq’s political and economic decision-making from Washington's hegemony. He had also emphasized that the Islamic Resistance would continue to fulfill its duties as long as the foreign military presence persists and Iraq’s sovereignty is violated; thereafter, it would make a decision regarding its "sacred weapons."
Source: AVA PRESS
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