"Workers, toilers! Islam is your supporter": Jomhouri-e Eslami special issue, 1982
Halftone poster printed in a newspaper supplement: a striding worker's silhouette carries a flag lettered with an invocation of God, beside the lines 'Workers, toilers! / Islam / is your supporter'. The tell: 'Islam' stands as the grammatical subject of a promise of support with no stated programme, and the religious flag is placed in the worker's hands to carry the appeal's authority.
- Date
- September 24, 1982
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Jomhouri-e Eslami (daily newspaper), special issue for the second anniversary of the war with Iraq
- Country
- Iran
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Leader
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Labor, Religion, War and the military
- Event
- Iran Iraq War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesTransfer
- Leader
- Mojtaba Khamenei
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (extracted from Jomhouri-e Eslami, 24 Sep 1982, via iran-archive.com), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per Commons (PD-Iran, 1970 law); Iran has no U.S. copyright relations (Circular 38A)
Staff of the newspaper Jomhouri-e Eslami, 24 September 1982. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
کارگران زحمتکشان اسلام حامی شماست [overprinted numerals at lower right: illegible]
Workers, toilers! Islam is your supporter [illegible]
The flag in the figure's hands carries an invocation of God (the word Allah is legible) that is only partly readable in the halftone; it is not transcribed. Text at the left edge is newspaper body copy cut by the crop and is [illegible]. The English is a literal machine translation by Claude.
