Wall News poster No. 53, gendarmerie and barracks (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 53, headed 'For the defence of the dear homeland', with a map of Iran marking Qom and Khaneh. Photographs show officers handing over a key, a portrait of the Shah before uniformed men, a radio operator, barracks, a tribal group and stone-crushing machinery. Captions credit American military aid for equipping the Qom gendarmerie and Khaneh barracks. The tell is glittering generalities ('dear homeland') and transfer of the Shah's portrait and U.S. aid onto the build-up.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 25, 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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- 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, March 25, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948869, 306-PPB-53j).
Text on the object
پیشرفت ایران شماره ٥٣، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می‌یابد ژاندارمری در قم توسعه می‌یابد ارتش شاهنشاهی در خانه توسعه می‌یابد برای دفاع از میهن عزیز کلنل جونز کلید ژاندارمری قم را به تیمسار سرلشکر گلپیرا می‌دهد سربازخانه (خانه) و ژاندارمری قم که با کمک نظامی امریکا در ایران ساخته شده با کلیه وسائل مدرن مجهز است ژاندارمری قم با دستگاه بی‌سیم مجهز است هم میهنان کرد در عملیات ساختمانی سربازخانه‌های جدید در منطقه مرزی خانه با ارتش شاهنشاهی ایران همکاری می‌کنند عشایر کرد با ماشین‌های سنگ‌خردکنی مدرن در آبادی مناطق خود فعالیت می‌نمایند صدای امریکا را در این ساعات گوش کنید از ساعت ٧ تا ١٠ بعد از ظهر هر شب برنامه های جالب صدای امریکا را روی امواج کوتاه ١٣، ١٦، ١٩ متر و موج متوسط ٢٣٨ متر بگیرید
Progress of Iran No. 53. This bulletin is published every two weeks. The gendarmerie in Qom is being expanded The imperial army is being expanded in Khaneh For the defence of the dear homeland Colonel Jones hands the key of the Qom gendarmerie to the general [name uncertain] The barracks (Khaneh) and the Qom gendarmerie, built in Iran with American military aid, are equipped with all modern means The Qom gendarmerie is equipped with a wireless set Fellow-countrymen of the Kurdish people are cooperating with the imperial army of Iran in the construction of the new barracks in the Khaneh border region Kurdish tribes are working with modern stone-crushing machines on the development of their regions Listen to the Voice of America at these hours: from 7 to 10 in the evening, every night, tune to the Voice of America programmes on short waves 13, 16, 19 metres and medium wave 238 metres
Small cursive Persian type; some words and numerals are read with uncertainty and the translation is approximate in those places. The name of the Iranian general in the key-handover caption and the ethnic term in the tribal captions are read with uncertainty.
