Portrait of Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan, 1989. Saddam after the Iran-Iraq war. Kurdish city of Sulaimania. Ba'ath control.

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Portrait of Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan, 1989. Compulsory images of the President erected in every Kurdish and other town and city in Iraq. Images after the Iran-Iraq war. The personality cult of Saddam as he presented himself at the end of the Iran-Iraq city of Sulaimania. After the creation of the northern no fly zone embraced Sulaimania in practice, this portrait was replaced with a similar portrait of the late Kurdish leader, Idris Barzani. Kurdistan under Ba'ath Party control in the shadow of Saddam.

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Size: 3521px × 5341px
Location: Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq
Photo credit: © Sheri Laizer / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1989., , brutal, control., cult, dictator., hussein, iran-iraq, iraq, iraqi, kurdistan, laizer., personality, photo, portrait, saddam, saddam., sheri, war.