Iran News poster 52b, Shah's USSR trip, locomotives (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
A Farsi 'Latest News' sheet in red, white and blue. Photographs show the Shah and Queen departing for and returning from the Soviet Union, a minister and the U.S. ambassador at a locomotive window, and a locomotive arriving. Captions say 70 General Motors locomotives were bought with a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan. The tell is transfer: American-financed equipment and the U.S. ambassador's presence are set inside royal news coverage.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- 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
- Economy and finance, 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 6948842, 306-PPB-52b).
Text on the object
آخرین اخبار شاهنشاه و ملکه ایران برای دیدن از اتحاد جماهیر شوروی بسوی آنکشور مسافرت می‌فرمایند. عکسهای شاهنشاه و ملکه که از سفرشان با اتحاد جماهیر شوروی بازگشت می‌فرمایند. سرلشکر ولی‌الله انصاری وزیر راه و جناب آقای سلدن چپین سفیر کبیر آمریکا لوکوموتیوی که رکورد سرعت را شکسته و اخیراً توسط ایران خریداری شده بازدید می‌کنند. ورود دو دستگاه از هفتاد دستگاه لوکوموتیو که از محل وام بانک واردات صادرات آمریکا از کمپانی جنرال موتورز خریداری شده. اخبار ایران گراور و چاپ اسفرجانی
Latest news The Shahanshah and the Queen of Iran are travelling toward the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to visit that country. Photographs of the Shahanshah and the Queen returning from their trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Major General Valiollah Ansari, minister of roads, and His Excellency Mr. Selden Chapin, the American ambassador, inspect the locomotive that broke the speed record and was recently purchased by Iran. Arrival of two of the seventy locomotives purchased from the General Motors company with a loan from the American Export-Import Bank. Iran News Engraving and printing: Asfarjani
Minor spelling and diacritics follow the print as far as legible.
