Wall News poster No. 52, 21 Azar army parade (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 52, headed 'Long live the Shah'. Photographs show infantry marching with rifles, tanks, and the Shah saluting from a jeep; a red drawing shows a boot over a map outline of north-west Iran marked 'Azar' with soldiers raising a flag. The caption marks the 21 Azar parade before the army's commander-in-chief. The tell is glittering generalities ('Long live the Shah', 'Hurrah 21 Azar') with transfer of military display onto the Shah.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 5, 1958
- 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
- Commemorate
- Theme
- 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, February 5, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948868, 306-PPB-53i).
Text on the object
پیشرفت ایران جاوید شاه رژه ٢١ آذر در پیشگاه بزرگ ارتشتاران فرمانده ٢١ آذر صدای امریکا را هر شب در این ساعات گوش کنید از ساعت ٧ تا ٨ بعد از ظهر به وقت تهران روی امواج کوتاه ١٣، ١٦، ١٩ و موج متوسط ٢٣٨ متر و از ساعت ٨ تا ٩ بعد از ظهر روی امواج کوتاه ١٣ و ١٦ متر شماره ٥٢، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می‌یابد
Progress of Iran Long live the Shah Hurrah, 21 Azar parade, before the Grand Commander of the Army 21 Azar Listen to the Voice of America every night at these hours: 7 to 8 p.m. Tehran time on short waves 13, 16, 19 and medium wave 238 metres, and from 8 to 9 p.m. on short waves 13 and 16 metres No. 52. This bulletin is published every two weeks.
Small cursive Persian type; some words and numerals are read with uncertainty and the translation is approximate in those places. The wording of the Voice of America box and of the main parade headline is read with some uncertainty.
