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.
- Date
- 1980
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Islamic Association of Youth of the Hojjatieh Mosque, Qaemshahr (local supporters' group); candidate Abolhassan Banisadr
- Country
- Iran
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Leader
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Leader
- Mojtaba Khamenei
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (file from the Tabnak news site, 2008), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per Commons (PD-Iran, author unknown); Iran has no U.S. copyright relations (Circular 38A)
Qaemshahr Hojjatieh mosque youth association, Iran, 1980; author unknown. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
به سید ابوالحسن بنیصدر مدافع عدالتهای اجتماعی، اقتصادی و سیاسی رأی میدهیم تا انقلاب [illegible] [illegible] کنیم انجمن اسلامی جوانان مسجد حجتیه قائمشهر
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.
