Wall News poster No. 56, Baghdad Pact members (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 56, headed 'Baghdad Pact: defence against aggression'. Map outlines of Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey, each with a leader's portrait, are joined by chain links, with 'and Britain' written beside them. Photographs show statesmen seated together, officers in a row, an arrival with a band and a conference table. The tell is glittering generalities ('defence against aggression', 'common interests') with the leaders' portraits as transfer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 24, 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
- 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, May 24, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948871, 306-PPB-53l).
Text on the object
پیشرفت ایران پیمان بغداد دفاع در مقابل تجاوز ایران عراق پاکستان ترکیه و انگلستان اعضای پیمان بغداد برای منافع مشترک در آنکارا تشکیل جلسه می‌دهند شماره ٥٦، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می‌یابد 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 The Baghdad Pact Defence against aggression Iran Iraq Pakistan Turkey and Britain The members of the Baghdad Pact hold a session in Ankara for common interests No. 56. This bulletin is published every two weeks. 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 place name in the caption beside the central text is read as Ankara (آنکارا) with some uncertainty.
