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
- Date
- December 26, 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
- Media and information, War and the military
- 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, December 26, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948853, 306-PPB-52m).
Text on the object
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
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.
