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title: '"War, war, until victory": Iranian war-affairs poster, 1980s'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jang-jang-ta-pirouzi-war-affairs-hq-poster-1980s/
description: 'Painted poster: three male fighters of different ages in headbands lettered ''Ya Mahdi'', a veiled woman at upper right, and a rifle in the foreground…'
section: Collection
---

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# "War, war, until victory": Iranian war-affairs poster, 1980s

Painted poster: three male fighters of different ages in headbands lettered 'Ya Mahdi', a veiled woman at upper right, and a rifle in the foreground, against green, white and red bands. Large lettering reads 'War, war, until victory'. The tell: the slogan names 'victory' with no stated aim, and the invocations on the headbands and the flag colours lend religious and national prestige to the call for more war.

## Text on the object

Original (Persian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
با قامتی استوار بر بام بلند شهادت و ایثار،
و با فریاد:
جنگ،
جنگ
تا پیروزی

[headbands, two red:] یا مهدی
[headband, green: illegible]

کمیته هنری ستاد امور جنگ
وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامی

[artist's signature, small, left: illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
With a firm stature on the high rooftop of martyrdom and self-sacrifice,
and with the cry:
War,
war
until victory

[headbands, two red:] Ya Mahdi
[headband, green: illegible]

Art Committee of the War Affairs Headquarters
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance

[artist's signature, small, left: illegible]
```

Read from a 600 px scan, with the lettering enlarged in sections. The line 'Ya Mahdi' on the two red headbands is partly obscured by the small portrait beside it. The English is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Payam: Ay Iraniyan (Message: O Iranians): Iraqi armed forces notice with image of Imam Ali](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iraq-notice-to-iranians-imam-ali-1980/) [The Shah kneeling before Khomeini beneath a Quranic scroll: Iranian poster, 1980 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shah-kneeling-before-khomeini-quran-scroll-poster-1980/)

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