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title: Iran News poster 52m, Suez police, book gift (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52m-peace-police-suez-books-to-majlis-farsi-1956/
description: A Farsi 'Latest News' cinema sheet in red and grey with four photographs and the number 82 in a box. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Iran News poster 52m, Suez police, book gift, 1956 US poster: A Farsi 'Latest News' cinema sheet in red and grey with four](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/iran-news-poster-52m-peace-police-suez-books-to-majlis-farsi-1956.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/iran-news-poster-52m-peace-police-suez-books-to-majlis-farsi-1956.jpg)

# Iran News poster 52m, Suez police, book gift (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)

A Farsi 'Latest News' cinema sheet in red and grey with four photographs and the number 82 in a box. Captions name the Shah receiving a gift from the American amateur athletes' union, the queen at a Soraya Pahlavi charity orphanage, a gift of books to the National Consultative Assembly, and the setting up of a peace police at the Suez Canal. The tell is transfer: US, royal and international items run together.

## 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

```
آخرین اخبار

شاهنشاه هدیهٔ اتحادیهٔ ورزشکاران
آماتور آمریکا را دریافت میکنند

علیا حضرت ملکه در پرورشگاه
جمعیت خیریهٔ ثریا پهلوی

اهداء کتاب به مجلس شورای ملی

استقرار پلیس صلح در کانال سوئز

اخبار
ایران

امشب در این سینما
نمایش داده میشود

۸۲
```

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

```
Latest news

The Shahanshah receives the gift of the American Amateur Athletes' Union

Her Majesty the Queen at the orphanage of the Soraya Pahlavi charitable society

Presentation of books to the National Consultative Assembly

Establishment of the peace police in the Suez Canal

Iran News

Tonight in this cinema
is shown

82
```

The English wording on the aircraft in the Suez photograph is not transcribed.

[← Washington Mosque poster, Islamic Center (Indonesian, multiple posts)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/washington-mosque-islamic-center-poster-indonesian-1956/) [Iran News poster 52n, Hungary, UN, Eisenhower (Farsi, distributed in Tehran) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52n-hungary-un-eisenhower-farsi-1956/)

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