Have Saddam focus on being anti Iranian.
If you can find the video of his execution, while he's being strung up for the gallows, he mocks the guards by asking them "Are you Persian?"
So, in your very last seconds of life, if you're still obsessing over the perfidious neighbours to the east, that does seem to show a certain dedicaction to the theme. Might not have spilled over into Iraqi foreign-policy enough to make a difference, however.