Cease-Fire Ruled Out by Iraq Before ‘Total Victory Is Achieved’ : Propaganda: Baghdad Radio broadcast marks continuing intransigence in the face of a widening war.

Underlining Iraq’s let’s-get-it-on challenge for a ground war in Kuwait, Baghdad Radio on Monday declared that Saddam Hussein’s regime would not accept a cease-fire in the conflict.

The hard-line stance marked continued Iraqi intransigence in the face of a widening war. Over the past 48 hours, Iraqi leaders and media repeatedly have dug in against Iranian, Soviet and Jordanian initiatives to find a political way out.

“Iraq will never cease firing before total victory is achieved,” the broadcast said, reinforcing Baghdad Radio’s Sunday announcement that the decision “to fight the evil aggressors and bury their evil designs is irrevocable.”

Hussein himself took to the airwaves late Sunday--his first personal statement in 12 days--to declare that “all of America’s financial, military and economic power is not sufficient to fight the fortress of faith in Iraq.”

Whether Hussein was attempting to stiffen the resolve of its army, under heavy allied bombardment, or rally Arab support outside the theater of war is unclear, but the barrage of tough talk appeared to preempt the few remaining initiatives for a political settlement.

Baghdad backed up its words with orders for 17-year-old students to report for army duty, joining school dropouts of the same age who already had been conscripted. Meanwhile, press reports from the Iraqi capital said, the city remained under heavy attack by allied airplanes. The Martyrs’ Bridge over the Tigris River, damaged in earlier raids, was destroyed by allied bombs early Monday, the dispatches said, leaving only three of the six bridges that span the river standing.

A military communique reported 57 air raids over the country late Sunday and early Monday and warned: “Our revenge for such savage air raids will be severe. The Americans and their slaves will pay for them in pools of blood.”

But so far it has been the Iraqis themselves who have paid the price of war. Religious Affairs Minister Abdullah Fadel said thousands of Iraqi civilians had been killed or wounded in air raids, the highest figure yet disclosed by a ranking official. He made no mention of military casualties.

Reaching for some method of shaking the coalition of Western and Arab forces deployed in Saudi Arabia, the Baghdad Radio broadcast issued an undisguised call for revolutions in Egypt, Syria and other Arab countries committed to driving the Iraqi army out of Kuwait.

“O Arabs,” the broadcast said, “this is your Iraq . . . a strong and confident Iraq. Take to the streets of revolution. This is your historic chance, this is the (Arab) nation’s historic chance, to get rid of its treacherous and cowardly rulers.”

The outburst of obstinacy left little room for political initiatives, but the Soviets and Iranians were still active, though expressing no particular hope. Jordan, whose King Hussein called for a cease-fire in a nationwide speech last week, appeared to have lost that opportunity with Baghdad’s rejection of a pause in the fighting. U.S. officials also have been cool to a cease-fire. Also on Monday, members of the Nonaligned Movement gathered in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to develop their own proposal for peace.

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s personal peace envoy, Yevgeny M. Primakov, arrived in Baghdad, but a Foreign Ministry spokesman had little optimism for a solution. Said Vitaly Churkin: “I would not want to raise expectations at all. They (the Iraqis) have given us no hints at all of their willingness to change their rather rigid position.”

Although Churkin said Primakov carried no specific peace plan, Alexander Dzasokhov, a member of the Communist Party Politburo and chairman of the parliamentary committee on foreign relations, was quoted as saying:

“The Soviet side’s desire to discuss with Saddam Hussein questions linked with the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait offers a chance to explore also other areas, including guarantees that Iraq will not be punished if its troops withdraw.”

Last week, Gorbachev warned the American-led forces in Saudi Arabia that their military operation against Iraq threaten to go beyond the Soviet-supported U.N. Security Council resolutions on the crisis. Dzasokhov agreed that the devastating air war could jeopardize U.S.-Soviet relations, saying: “The war must not become a reason for a setback for the welcome process in international relations which made it possible to end the Cold War.”

Like other diplomatic travelers in and out of beleaguered Baghdad during the past three weeks, Primakov’s route and method of travel was not announced in Moscow. But a late report from Tehran said he had stopped there on the way and quoted him as saying the Soviets want their efforts “to be in line and in coordination with Iranian efforts.”

At least once in the past two weeks, the Baghdad-Tehran journey was completed--by Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Sadoun Hammadi--by air between Tehran and the border and then by road to Baghdad.

In Belgrade, delegates from 15 nations in the Nonaligned Movement are hopeful that their own version of the recently rejected Iranian proposal may be more attractive to Hussein, simply because of the source and timing.

Though the Nonaligned Movement failed to exert much influence during the Cold War, primarily because of in-fighting among the diverse 102 member nations, its image as champion of those overlooked by super-power politics could make its Gulf War proposals more palatable to Hussein, who has tried to cast Iraq as the victim of big-power bullying since U.S.-led forces invaded on Jan. 17.

But several participants in the Belgrade talks insist they have no intention of backing off from the conditions stated in U.N. resolutions calling on Iraq to unconditionally withdraw from Kuwait.

“The only chance (for a successful proposal from the Belgrade meeting) is Iraq’s acceptance of the resolutions of the Security Council--the only chance,” said Jorge Taiana, Argentina’s ambassador to the special closed-door conference.

Western diplomats monitoring the nonaligned initiative cautioned that Hussein has shown no interest in complying with international conditions for a cease-fire, so they believe little can be expected from the Belgrade effort.

Earlier Monday, in Tehran ceremonies marking the 12th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, President Hashemi Rafsanjani defended his country’s neutrality in the war as appropriate when “a large number of world states have aligned themselves with the U.S. aggressor and a few others have approved the illegal takeover of independent Kuwait due to their subservience to another despotic power.”

Times staff writer Carol J. Williams, in Belgrade, contributed to this article.