Is This Counterfeit?

I tried to hold it up to the light as best as I could, tell me if you need a better shot

thanks for replying! I hope it is real

English is the business language used in Iraq and is very common most people there can speak it and of the 300 + notes I have from Iraq, I believe they all have English legends. For what I can see it looks authentic

Yep, the paper money of most middle eastern countries has a "Western side" (normally English, but occasionally French - it depends on who the former colonial power used to be) and an "Arabic side". The Arabic side is normally the front, as it is in this case.

These notes were extensively copied by the Iraqis themselves in the dying days of Saddam's regime. Under the embargo, Saddam could neither get foreign banknote printers to print his notes (a Swiss company used to do it for them), nor import the equipment they needed to make high-security notes themselves. That means these notes lack many of the anti-counterfeiting devices found on earlier Iraqi notes, therefore these notes are relatively easy to forge.

But such "contemporary counterfeits" would be collector's items in their own right. In 50 years time, such fakes will probably be worth far more than the "real ones" - if you can prove it was a contemporary fake.