--- title: 'Ayyuha al-jaysh al-''iraqi al-sharif (O honourable Iraqi army): Iranian Army leaflet on Saddam''s ''film''' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-army-leaflet-saddam-pow-film-iraqi-army-1980/ description: Arabic leaflet under the Iranian state emblem, addressed to Iraqi soldiers, answering an Iraqi film about Iranian treatment of prisoners. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Wartime leaflet that calls Saddam Hussein a criminal, agent and charlatan, in Arabic. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Ayyuha al-jaysh al-'iraqi al-sharif (O honourable Iraqi army): Iranian Army leaflet on Saddam's 'film'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/iran-army-leaflet-saddam-pow-film-iraqi-army-1980.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/iran-army-leaflet-saddam-pow-film-iraqi-army-1980.png) # Ayyuha al-jaysh al-'iraqi al-sharif (O honourable Iraqi army): Iranian Army leaflet on Saddam's 'film' Arabic leaflet under the Iranian state emblem, addressed to Iraqi soldiers, answering an Iraqi film about Iranian treatment of prisoners. It labels Saddam 'the criminal agent', 'the charlatan' and 'the tyrant', calls Iraqi prisoners 'dear guests', and ends by urging the troops to come over to their 'brothers'. The tell: loaded epithets stand in for argument, and the prisoners' status is renamed rather than described. ## Text on the object Original (Arabic) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [Iranian state emblem, upper left, in a black corner band with small text: illegible] [calligraphic basmala, as a heading] ايها الجيش العراقي الشريف السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته أرايتم كيف ابتكر صدام العفلقي لعبة جديدة؟ انه يريد بواسطتها ان يخدع مراتب الجيش العراقي وجنوده الاعزاء فبعد ان رأى المجرم العميل صدام التحول الكبير عند الاخوة الاسرى العراقيين الذين ينزلون ضيوفا اعزاء عند الجمهورية الاسلامية في ايران جن جنونه وامتلا حقدا فهو لا يستطيع ان يصدق الرعاية التى تقدمها جمهوريتنا الاسلامية لهؤلاء الاسرى الضيوف ولا يتحمل ان يرى التغيير الايجابي الذى طرأ على الاخوة الاسرى باتجاه اسلامهم العظيم و اخلاق وفضائل دينهم الحنيف وهو لا يتحمل تفاعل هؤلاء الاخوة مع الحقيقة ورفضهم الصريح لنظام حكم العميل الجاثم على رقاب الشعب العراقي الشقيق . ومن اجل هذا وذاك استعان المجرم الدجال صدام العفلقي بالفنين الغربيين فمثلوا فلما خبيثا كاذبا ادعوا فيه ان الجمهورية الاسلامية تعتدي على حياة الضيوف الاسرى وتسيء اليهم . ايها الجيش العراقي العزيز : ان هذا الفلم الكاذب وامثاله من ادعاءات المجرم العميل والاعيبه و اعلامه المضلل يريد بواسطته منعكم عن تسليم انفسكم لاخوانكم جيش الجمهورية الاسلامية وان صدام المجرم يريد من وراء ذلك ان تبقوا وقودا لقادسية السوداء . اننا على يقين ان وعيكم وادراككم للامور ولحقيقة الطاغوت المجرم سيفشل اهدافه والاعيبه الرعناء . فهلموا الى اخوانكم معززين مكرمين رافضين للظلم والطاغوت والاجرام . والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته اخوانكم جيش الجمهورية الاسلامية في ايران ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` [Iranian state emblem, upper left, in a black corner band with small text: illegible] [calligraphic basmala, as a heading] O honourable Iraqi army, Peace be upon you, and God's mercy and blessings. Have you seen how Saddam al-Aflaqi has devised a new trick? By means of it he wants to deceive the ranks of the Iraqi army and its dear soldiers. After the criminal agent Saddam saw the great change among the brothers, the Iraqi prisoners who are staying as dear guests with the Islamic Republic in Iran, he went mad and filled with hatred, for he cannot believe the care our Islamic Republic gives these prisoner-guests, and cannot bear to see the positive change that has come over the brother prisoners in the direction of their great Islam and the morals and virtues of their true religion, and he cannot bear these brothers' response to the truth and their open rejection of the rule of the agent who squats on the necks of the brotherly Iraqi people. For this reason and that, the criminal charlatan Saddam al-Aflaqi enlisted Western technicians, who acted out a malicious, lying film in which they claimed that the Islamic Republic assaults the lives of the guest-prisoners and mistreats them. O dear Iraqi army: This lying film and its like, of the claims of the criminal agent, his tricks and his misleading media, is meant to prevent you from surrendering yourselves to your brothers, the army of the Islamic Republic, and what the criminal Saddam wants from this is that you remain fuel for the black Qadisiyya. We are certain that your awareness and your understanding of matters, and of the reality of the criminal tyrant, will defeat his aims and his reckless tricks. So come to your brothers, honoured and respected, rejecting oppression, the tyrant and crime. Peace be upon you, and God's mercy and blessings. Your brothers, The Army of the Islamic Republic in Iran ``` Read from a 600 px scan, enlarged two-fold in sections; a few words may be misread. Printed as read: 'بالفنين الغربيين' (probably 'بالفنيين', 'technicians', with a dropped letter), 'وامتلا حقدا' (run together as printed; 'and filled with hatred') and 'فمثلوا فلما' ('film' spelled as the leaflet spells it). Spacing around punctuation follows the print. The English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 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