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

Date

August 22, 1956

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Warn or inform

Themes

War and the military, Media and information

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 22, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948841, 306-PPB-52a).

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

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]

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