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title: Iran News poster 52d, Lankarani murder inquiry (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52d-lankarani-murder-inquiry-farsi-1956/
description: A Farsi 'Latest News' sheet in red and yellow, built around five photographs of the recovery of the remains of Hesam Lankarani.
section: Collection
---

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# Iran News poster 52d, Lankarani murder inquiry (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)

A Farsi 'Latest News' sheet in red and yellow, built around five photographs of the recovery of the remains of Hesam Lankarani. They show a forensic physician holding a skull, the Tehran military governor and an officer at a house, a man named as a Tudeh party terrorist and killer, and the victim's brother with a prosecutor's representative. Captions call the party's killings 'dastardly terrorism'. The tell is name-calling: the party is labelled by those terms.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
آخرین اخبار

د کتر طباطبائی پزشک قانونی جمجمه مقتول را بدقت مورد بررسی قرار می‌دهد.

باحضور تیمسار سرتیپ بختیار فرماندار نظامی تهران درخانه‌ای در قلهک بقایای جنازه حسام لنکرانی از زیر خاک بیرون آورده می‌شود.

سرکار سرهنگ مبصر رئیس ستاد فرماندار نظامی اطلاعاتی درباره ترورهای ناجوانمردانه حزب توده در اختیار مخبرین جراید می‌گذارند.

آرسن اوانسیان یکی از تروریستهای حزب توده و قاتل حسام لنکرانی

شیخ حسین لنکرانی برادر مقتول - نماینده دادستان و مخبرین جراید، استخوانهای حسام لنکرانی را بررسی می‌کنند.

اخبار ایران
```

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

```
Latest news

Dr. Tabatabai, the forensic physician, examines the victim's skull carefully.

In the presence of Brigadier General Bakhtiar, military governor of Tehran, in a house in Gholhak, the remains of the body of Hesam Lankarani are brought out from under the soil.

Colonel Mobaser, chief of staff of the military governor, gives information about the dastardly terrorist acts of the Tudeh party to the press correspondents.

Arsen Avanesian, one of the Tudeh party terrorists and the killer of Hesam Lankarani

Sheikh Hossein Lankarani, the victim's brother, a representative of the prosecutor and press correspondents examine the bones of Hesam Lankarani.

Iran News
```

Names of officers are transcribed as read; the rank/title line of the third caption is partly uncertain.

[← Iran News poster 52c, flood relief and rationing (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52c-flood-relief-farsi-1956/) [Jayanti Festival poster, 2500th Anniversary in America (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jayanti-festival-poster-burmese-rangoon-1956/)

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