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title: Banisadr presidential election poster ("We vote for Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr"), Qaemshahr Islamic Youth Association
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/banisadr-election-poster-qaemshahr-1980/
description: 'Black-and-white candidate poster: a close photographic portrait of Banisadr in glasses beside large Persian type, signed by a local mosque youth…'
section: Collection
---

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# Banisadr presidential election poster ("We vote for Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr"), Qaemshahr Islamic Youth Association

Black-and-white candidate poster: a close photographic portrait of Banisadr in glasses beside large Persian type, signed by a local mosque youth association. The text offers 'social, economic and political justice' as the reason to vote, a virtue claim with no stated programme.

## Text on the object

Original (Persian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
به
سید ابوالحسن
بنی‌صدر
مدافع عدالت‌های اجتماعی،
اقتصادی و سیاسی رأی
می‌دهیم تا انقلاب [illegible]
[illegible] کنیم

انجمن اسلامی جوانان مسجد حجتیه قائم‌شهر
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
To
Seyyed Abolhassan
Banisadr,
defender of social, economic and political justices, we vote so that [illegible] the revolution [illegible]

Islamic Association of Youth of the Hojjatieh Mosque, Qaemshahr
```

The last two body lines are blurred in the reproduction and are left [illegible] rather than guessed. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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