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title: 'Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 49: Islamic Center, nurses (Farsi, Tehran)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pishraft-e-iran-wall-news-poster-49-islamic-center-shiraz-farsi-tehran-1957/
description: A Farsi photo-and-caption wall sheet, 'Progress of Iran' No. 49, on green panels. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
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# Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 49: Islamic Center, nurses (Farsi, Tehran)

A Farsi photo-and-caption wall sheet, 'Progress of Iran' No. 49, on green panels. It shows President Eisenhower at the podium opening the Islamic Center in Washington with a quoted statement, a sketch and photograph of the Center's minaret, and the Namazi Hospital and first nursing graduates in Shiraz, with a note on US help. The tell is transfer: the US president's respect for Islam and US hospital aid are linked in one layout.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
پیشرفت ایران
شماره ۴۹، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می یابد

پرزیدنت ایزنهاور در نطقی که بمناسبت افتتاح مرکز اسلامی واشنگتن ایراد نمود اظهار داشت: بسیار بجاست که ما همه در برابر خدای یگانه خود را وقف پیشرفت و سلامت آمیز انسانها بسازیم.

گشایش مرکز اسلامی واشنگتن بوسیله پرزیدنت ایزنهاور
[caption continues]

بیمارستان نمازی شیراز
(مرکز مجهز تشخیص و درمان بیماریها)

مراسم جشن فارغ التحصیلی آموزشگاه عالی پرستاری بیمارستان نمازی شیراز
[body text continues; not fully transcribed]

چهار نفر فارغ التحصیلان اولین دوره آموزشگاه عالی پرستاری

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
```

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

```
Progress of Iran
No. 49. This bulletin is published once every two weeks

President Eisenhower, in a speech on the occasion of the opening of the Islamic Center in Washington, declared: 'It is very fitting that we all, before our one God, dedicate ourselves to the progress and peaceful well-being of mankind.' [approximate]

Opening of the Islamic Center in Washington by President Eisenhower
[caption continues]

Namazi Hospital, Shiraz
(a well-equipped centre for diagnosis and treatment of diseases)

Graduation ceremony of the Advanced School of Nursing of Namazi Hospital, Shiraz
[body text continues; not fully transcribed]

Four of the graduates of the first course of the Advanced School of Nursing

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
```

The issue-number digit and some hand-set words are small; masthead, headings, the Eisenhower statement and the radio box are transcribed and the body is only partly transcribed.

[← Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), cover](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ngo-dinh-diem-of-viet-nam-bamboo-cover-1957/) [SEATO poster 183, flag ring (English, no date) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seato-poster-183-flag-ring-english-undated/)

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