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title: 'Shooresh cartoon on the 1953 dissolution referendum: "155544 votes in favour" and opponents before gallows'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shooresh-referendum-gallows-cartoon-1953/
description: 'Newspaper cartoon: a worker-like figure holds up a sheet reading ''155544 votes in favour'' while three gallows stand behind him and a group of named men…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Newspaper cartoon showing named political opponents filing toward gallows with nooses hanging. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Shooresh cartoon on the 1953 dissolution referendum: "155544 votes in favour" and opponents before gallows](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shooresh-referendum-gallows-cartoon-1953.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shooresh-referendum-gallows-cartoon-1953.jpg)

# Shooresh cartoon on the 1953 dissolution referendum: "155544 votes in favour" and opponents before gallows

Newspaper cartoon: a worker-like figure holds up a sheet reading '155544 votes in favour' while three gallows stand behind him and a group of named men file toward them, labelled with the names Baqai, Makki, Haeri-zadeh and Mir-Ashrafi, with a turbaned cleric among them. The vote tally is offered as the proof, and the opponents' names are tied to the nooses.

## Text on the object

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

```
۱۵۵۵۴۴
رأی موافق

بقایی
مکی
حائری‌زاده
میراشرافی
```

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

```
155,544
votes in favour

Baqai
Makki
Haeri-zadeh
Mir-Ashrafi
```

Only the numeral sheet and the name labels on the figures carry text in this crop. The label on the third figure from the left is hard to read ('حائری‌زاده' on the sleeve). Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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