Content note: Newspaper cartoon showing named political opponents filing toward gallows with nooses hanging. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- August 8, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Shooresh newspaper, Tehran (issue of 17 Mordad 1332); Commons describes a related print of this cartoon as published in a pro-Mossadegh publication
- Country
- Iran
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Mosaddegh Government
- Leader
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1953 Iran Crisis
- Techniques
- BandwagonName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan from the newspaper Shooresh, 17 Mordad 1332 SH), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per Commons (PD-Iran; PD-Scan); Iran has no U.S. copyright relations (Circular 38A)
Staff of Shooresh newspaper, Tehran, 1953. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
۱۵۵۵۴۴ رأی موافق بقایی مکی حائریزاده میراشرافی
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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