Payam: Ay Iraniyan (Message: O Iranians): Iraqi armed forces notice with image of Imam Ali
Persian-language leaflet addressed to Iranian troops, with a portrait captioned as Imam Ali beside the text. It presents Iraq as the keeper of the Imams' shrines, warns that God's and the Prophet's household's wrath will pursue any attacker in this world and the next, and tells the reader to surrender in order to survive.
- Date
- 1980
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Armed Forces of Iraq (notice signed 'Iraqi armed forces')
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Iraq
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Ba'athist Iraq
- Leader
- Saddam Hussein
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion
- Event
- Iran Iraq War
- Techniques
- Fear appealTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan credited to sajed.ir), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per Commons (PD-Iraq); Iraq has no U.S. copyright relations (Circular 38A)
Iraqi armed forces, via sajed.ir and Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم پیام ای ایرانیان کشوری که مراقد ائمهٔ اطهار علی و حسین و عباس (علیهم السلام) را به آغوش میگیرد، کسی در آن ستم نمیبیند، و همیشه ارجمند است. و همچنین هرکسی به آن پناه بیارد مکرم میشود. عراقیان نوادگان آل بیت اطهار پناهنده را به سفر برای هر کشوری که خود آن را میخواهد مخیّر میکنند، ولی ما در کمینگاه هستیم روبروی هر تجاوزگری به سرزمین عراق وارد بشود، سپس غضب خداوند متعال و آل بیت در دنیا و آخرت وی را تعقیب خواهدکرد. لذا برحذر باشید، و بر علیه عراق امام علی (علیه السلام) حمله نکنید.. خودرا تسلیم دهید، شاید سالم بمانید. - نیروهای مسلح عراق - [caption under the portrait, small print: عراق در پناه امیرالمؤمنین علی بن ابیطالب علیهالسلام و آل... — remainder illegible]
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Message O Iranians: A country that embraces the shrines of the pure Imams Ali, Hussein and Abbas (peace be upon them): no one sees injustice in it, and it is always honoured, and likewise whoever takes refuge in it is honoured. The Iraqis, descendants of the pure Household [of the Prophet], give the refugee the choice to travel to whichever country he wants, but we are lying in wait facing every aggressor who enters the land of Iraq; then the wrath of God Almighty and of the Household will pursue him in this world and the next. Therefore be warned, and do not attack the Iraq of Imam Ali (peace be upon him).. Surrender yourselves, perhaps you will remain safe. - The Armed Forces of Iraq - [caption under the portrait, small print: Iraq is under the protection of the Commander of the Faithful Ali ibn Abi Talib, peace be upon him, and the Household... — remainder illegible]
Read from a 937 px scan; the body text is clear, the caption under the portrait is only partly legible. Spelling and punctuation follow the leaflet. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
