The last US troops left Iraq on September 30 under a 2024 agreement between Baghdad and Washington. On October 1, Press TV ran four headlines with four different speakers and one verdict: the US was “expelled”. Press TV ran one verdict through four mouths on October 1. A Quds Force commander: “US expelled”. The IRGC: “‘beginning of expulsion’”. Hezbollah: “‘historic achievement’”. Basra residents: “Blessed victory day”. Each headline names a new speaker, so a reader scrolling the site meets a chorus, not a claim. Agreement among one government’s allies is presented as agreement in general. None of the four headlines mentions the 2024 agreement between Baghdad and Washington that set the timetable. The US side tells the same exit as a finished job. AP’s headline says the withdrawal “is complete”. The Pentagon calls it “the success of a 12-year campaign” against ISIS. The war with Iran that began February 28, in which Iran-backed militias fired on US troops, is not in that line. The Kurdish Peshmerga Ministry counted more than 1,000 drone and ballistic-missile attacks and called the departure without a defense system a matter of concern. Neither victory story has room for that sentence. The same week, the frame moved to the sky. Press TV: US sanctions “threaten historical ties”. Al Jazeera, on the same request: “Iran urges Iraq to lift flight ban”. In one headline Washington acts and the ties suffer. In the other, Iraq holds the ban and Iran is asking. On September 28, Press TV sent the aviation complaint through a “Rights body”. The pattern holds: the verdict arrives in a borrowed voice.
