In response to the gossips distributed by some hostile media about the destiny of the Resistance in Iraq, Ash-Shimmari, describing the Resistance groups as the identity of Iraq, maintained, “The order of Abd al-Mahdi doesn’t require the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces ( IPMF ) to be merged with the army, yet, it is an instruction defining how the IPMF should act as a part of the military forces of Iraq (as determined by the Act passed in the parliament).”

The IPMF has sent a group of its victims to Iran to undergo treatment.