File:Flag of Iraq (1991–2004).svg

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Description

English: Former Iraqi flag, used from 1991 to 2004.

العربية: علم العراق، ١٤٢٥-١٤١١

Kurdî: ئالا ئیراق، ١٤٢٥-١٤١١

ܐܪܡܝܐ : ܐܬܐ ܕܥܝܪܐܩ، ܐܬܬܩܨܐ - ܒܕ

Date 1991-2004

Source From openclipart.org, by Lauris Kaplinski.

Author See File history below for details.

Permission
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This work was first published in Iraq and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright, amended 2004 by Order No. 83, Amendment to the Copyright Law (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:

It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication or it was published prior to 1 May 2004
It is a work where the copyright holder is a legal entity or a work of applied art and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
It is a photographic or cinematic work that is not compositive (artistic in nature) first published before 1 May 1999
It is work published in Iraq before 1 May 1954, and the author died before 1 May 1979
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is one of "collections of official documents, such as texts of international laws, regulations and agreements, judicial judgements and various official documents."
It is the work of a body corporate, public or private, published by January 1st, 1980 (Article 20, 1971 law).

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Iraq has enacted Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 21 January 1971. Iraq has enacted Regulation No. 10 of 1985 on the National Committee for the Protection of Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 2 September 1985. Iraq has enacted Order No. 83, Amendment to the Copyright Law (Arabic) (unofficial English (WIPO) translation) which came into force on 1 May 2004.

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Other versions

Current flags and coats of arms
State flag (2008-present)
Coat of arms (2008–present)

Historical flags
(1921–1959)
Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan (1958)
(1959–1963)
(1963–1991)
(1991–2004)
(2004–2008)

Detailed color approximations

	Red	White	Green	Black
RGB	`206/17/38`	`255/255/255`	`0/122/61`	`0/0/0`
Hexadecimal	`#ce1126`	`#FFFFFF`	`#007a3d`	`#000000`
CMYK	`12/100/98/3`	`0/0/0/0`	`89/27/100/15`	`75/68/67/90`

Interpretation of the colors

Scheme	Textile colour
Red	The Hashemite dynasty, bloody struggle for freedom.
White	The Umayyad dynasty, bright and peaceful future.
Green	The Islam, the takbīr (the phrase Allahu akbar, meaning "God is great" in Arabic)
Black	The Abbasid dynasty,

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	04:47, 6 April 2025	900 × 600 (10 KB)	Babylonian1963	Reverted to version as of 08:51, 6 February 2025 (UTC) this version is uploaded at File:Flag_of_Iraq_(1991–2004,_Alternate).svg
	08:22, 5 April 2025	900 × 600 (6 KB)	Kimoaym	Reverted to version as of 18:39, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
	08:51, 6 February 2025	900 × 600 (10 KB)	Babylonian1963	Pretty much any source featuring this Iraqi flag before 2015 features this design, here are some English sources: https://globalvoices.org/2008/01/27/flagging-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/ https://outsidethebeltway.com/the-case-against-american-action-in-iraq/ https://topnews.in/official-funeral-ceremony-iraqi-shiite-leader-begins-baghdad-2207597
	12:10, 8 January 2025	900 × 600 (6 KB)	NorthTension	Reverted to version as of 18:39, 29 May 2022 (UTC) can you source this instead of spam reverting and then uploading a duplicate file?
	06:26, 8 January 2025	900 × 600 (10 KB)	Babylonian1963	For historical acuracy reasons, even though the flag has been retroactively displayed as the User:ImageUploader12345 vectorization online, this version is more historically acurate and matches most sources from the time
	09:08, 7 January 2025	900 × 600 (6 KB)	Babylonian1963	Reverted to version as of 18:39, 29 May 2022 (UTC) From my own research I have found Iraqi Government media that in fact, did display the Takbir in a very similar style to what is depitcted in the vectorization originally made by User:ImageUploader12345. However, it must be understood that there was no single standardized version of this flag, the only legal requirement was that the Takbir should be added on both sides of the second star. There was no font specification and many archaic v...
	02:09, 7 January 2025	900 × 600 (10 KB)	Babylonian1963	Reverted to version as of 17:09, 16 October 2011 (UTC) The version used online during the time of the Government, most depictions from the time are like this, to revert, find one official Iraqi Government source from before 2004 that depitcts the Takbir on the flag standardized like the previous version
	18:39, 29 May 2022	900 × 600 (6 KB)	Cesar David MP	Reverted to version as of 23:31, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
	09:39, 29 May 2022	844 × 562 (9 KB)	Throwaway865432	revectorised
	23:31, 1 December 2018	900 × 600 (6 KB)	Tcfc2349	fixed