Iran News poster 52q, Point Four property handover (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
A Farsi 'Latest News' sheet in red and grey with three photographs and a boxed cinema notice. Captions refer to the events in Hungary, the Shahanshah in classes of the campaign against illiteracy, and the ceremony handing over 2 million dollars of Point Four property to the Iranian government. The tell is transfer: a U.S. aid handover and the monarch's literacy visit are shown among world news as one reel.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 3, 1957
- 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, 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, January 3, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948857, 306-PPB-52q).
Text on the object
آخرین اخبار امشب در این سینما نمایش داده میشود وقایع مجارستان شاهنشاه در کلاسهای مبارزه با بیسوادی اخبار ایران مراسم واگذاری ۲ میلیون دلار اموال اصل ٤ به دولت ایران 000081
Latest news Tonight in this cinema it is shown The events of Hungary The Shahanshah in the classes of the struggle against illiteracy Iran News Ceremony of the handing over of 2 million dollars of Point Four property to the Government of Iran 000081
The number 000081 is a stamped sheet number.
