Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 46: US military aid (Farsi, Tehran)
A Farsi photo-and-caption wall sheet, 'Progress of Iran' No. 46, on army modernisation. Photographs show an F-84-type jet with US Air Force markings, tanks and a bazooka team, infantry in a live-fire exercise, crates of delivered equipment, and the Shah beside a US general and an American officer. Text says US military aid has equipped the Iranian army. The tell is card-stacking: only the delivered equipment and training are shown, and no cost or condition is mentioned.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- December 2, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. information 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
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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 2, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948863, 306-PPB-53d).
Text on the object
پیشرفت ایران شماره ۴۶، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می یابد اعلیحضرت همایون شاهنشاه مانورهای اخیر ارتش ایران را که در آن گلوله های حقیقی بکار رفت نشاهده فرمودند ... [body text continues; not fully transcribed] نیروی هوائی ارتش شاهنشاهی خود را بر عصر جت آماده میسازد ... تعلیمات عملی قسمت مهمی از برنامه تعلیماتی افسران و سربازان ایرانی میباشد ... ارتش های مدرن امروز دارای سلاحهای موتوری میباشد ... امریکا برای تقویت ارتش ایران سلاحهای اتوماتیک و تانک ها ... در اختیار ارتش ایران نهاده است طبق برنامه مساعدت نظامی دوم امریکا بایران ... بیش از یکصد میلیون دلار لوازم و تجهیزات ... و وزن آن بیش از ۲۰۰,۰۰۰ تن میباشد ... صدای امریکا را در این ساعات گوش کنید از ساعت 7 تا 10 بعد از ظهر هر شب برنامه های جالب صدای امریکا روی موج کوتاه 13، 16، 19 و 25 متر و موج متوسط 238 متر پخش میشود
Progress of Iran No. 46. This bulletin is published once every two weeks His Majesty the Shahanshah watched the recent manoeuvres of the Iranian army in which live shells were used ... [body text continues; not fully transcribed] The Imperial army's air force is preparing for the jet age ... Practical training is an important part of the training programme for Iranian officers and soldiers ... Modern armies today have motorised weapons ... America has placed automatic weapons, tanks ... at the disposal of the Iranian army [approximate] Under America's military aid programme to Iran ... more than one hundred million dollars of equipment ... weighing more than 200,000 tons ... [approximate] Listen to the Voice of America at these hours From 7 to 10 in the evening Every night interesting Voice of America programmes on short wave 13, 16, 19 and 25 metres and medium wave 238 metres are broadcast
Masthead, radio box and main statements transcribed; photo captions and small body text only partly legible, marked as continuing.
