The Voice of Iraq ( ar, إذاعة صوت العراق lit: ''Idha'atu Sawt Il-Iraq'') is a privately owned

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

that has broadcast since August 27, 2003. It broadcasts in Arabic, Iraqi Turkish and English on 1179 kHz medium wave in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

and nearby towns including Ba'qubah and Fallujah to an area with 12 million inhabitants. Voice of Iraq is supervised by the International Agency for Free Media, which is a media institution that was active abroad during the

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

regime and covered Iraqi news via the Internet.

Editorial policy

The editorial policy of the Voice of Iraq is supportive of national unity, on the basis that

Arabs The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ira ...

and Turkomans should have equal rights. Programmes include news reports and panel discussions of current affairs, combined with Shi'a religious and patriotic songs.

Other radio stations of the same name

Prior to the formation of "Voice of Iraq" in 2003, the name had been used previously by several radio stations including an English language FM station owned by

Uday Hussein Uday Saddam Hussein ( ar, عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician and the eldest son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head ...

. There were also an Egyptian Government funded radio station that operated between 1958–1959, which advocated pan-Arabism and supported Abdul Karim Qassim. In addition there was another radio station that operated in 1959 that was a

black propaganda Black propaganda is a form of propaganda intended to create the impression that it was created by those it is supposed to discredit. Black propaganda contrasts with gray propaganda, which does not identify its source, as well as white propagan ...

effort that mimicked the pro-Qassim station but attacked his government and was widely considered to be U.S. funded. The Voice of Iraq radio station should also not be confused with the independent daily Iraqi newspaper with the similar name ''Sawt al-Iraq'' (Voice of Iraq) which launched in 2002."The online daily Sotaliraq" cited by BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5002000.stm

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Voice of Iraq (in Arabic)
{{coord missing, Iraq Radio stations in Iraq Arabic-language radio stations Mass media in Baghdad

Editorial policy

Other radio stations of the same name

See also

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