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title: Iran News poster 52a, jets and basketball (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52a-jets-basketball-farsi-1956/
description: A Farsi 'Latest News' sheet in maroon and yellow headed 'Iran News'. Four photographs show two jet aircraft, American passengers waving from an airliner
section: Collection
---

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# Iran News poster 52a, jets and basketball (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)

A Farsi 'Latest News' sheet in maroon and yellow headed 'Iran News'. Four photographs show two jet aircraft, American passengers waving from an airliner stairway, and a basketball game in a park. Captions say American jets have been handed to the Imperial air force and that an American basketball team is in Tehran; a line announces a showing 'tonight in this cinema'. The tell is transfer: US-made aircraft and an American team are presented as Iranian news.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
اخبار
ایران

امشب در این سینما
نمایش داده می‌شود

هواپیماهای جت امریکائی که تحویل نیروی هوائی شاهنشاهی گردیده است

تیم بسکتبال معروف امریکائی در تهران [illegible] صبح این بازی [illegible] قهرمانان ایرانی [illegible]

آخرین اخبار
```

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

```
Iran News

Tonight this cinema
shows

American jet aircraft that have been delivered to the Imperial air force

The famous American basketball team in Tehran [illegible] this game [illegible] Iranian champions [illegible]

Latest news
```

One caption (basketball) is partly illegible in the scan.

[← It Runs Anyway!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-it-runs-anyway-1956/) [Iran News poster 52b, Shah's USSR trip, locomotives (Farsi, distributed in Tehran) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52b-shah-ussr-trip-locomotives-farsi-1956/)

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