The Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah announced on Sunday, November 15, in a statement that despite entering into negotiations on the weapons organization and signing an agreement on national sovereignty with the members of the coordination framework and the Iraqi government, it will not give up its weapons and will not retreat in the face of pressure from the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
This group said in its statement that the prime minister of Iraq did not fulfill his obligations.
Kataib Hezbollah described these steps as part of the pressure to force this group to give up weapons and said: "The case of Shahr al-Nasr and the weapons of the resistance should be outside of political conflicts, and no matter how much pressure from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and the United States increases through the al-Zaidi government, we will not back down from this principle."
The group also accused the Iraqi government of using pressure methods and creating fake cases to condemn Katab Hezbollah.
In another part of the statement, Kataib Hezbollah denied the accusation of oil smuggling in the city of al-Nasr and said that the technical committee that entered the area to investigate this issue did not observe any attack or manipulation of the oil pipelines.