--- title: Wall News poster No. 60, locust control (Farsi, distributed in Tehran) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wall-news-poster-60-locust-control-dieldrin-farsi-1958/ description: A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 60, on a U.S. government gift of insecticide for locust control. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Wall News poster No. 60, locust control (Farsi, distributed in Tehran) [![Wall News poster No. 60, locust control, 1958 US poster: A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wall-news-poster-60-locust-control-dieldrin-farsi-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wall-news-poster-60-locust-control-dieldrin-farsi-1958.jpg) # Wall News poster No. 60, locust control (Farsi, distributed in Tehran) A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 60, on a U.S. government gift of insecticide for locust control. Photographs show an American official handing a can of dieldrin to an Iranian deputy minister, an airliner unloading, cans being loaded on a truck and a spray aircraft over a field, with a drawn locust and wheat. Captions give the quantity, 14,000 kg, and say the rest will follow. The tell is card-stacking: aid delivered is shown, with the pest as the threat. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (Persian (Farsi)) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` پیشرفت ایران شماره ٦٠، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می‌یابد یک قسمت از کمکی که دولت امریکا برای مبارزه با ملخ مراکشی با ایران مود هدیه ١٤٠٠٠ کیلو سم آلدرین بود که ١١ اردیبهشت تحویل وزارت کشاورزی گردید و بقیه کمک ها تدریجا با ایران خواهد رسید آقای برن رئیس هیئت عملیات اقتصادی امریکا در ایران "یکی از شبکه های سم آلدرین مخصوص دفع ملخ را آقای مهندس کاظم فاطمی معاون وزارت کشاورزی ایران هدیه می‌کند" شبکه های آلدرین از هواپیمای غول پیکر امریکائی به داخل کامیونهای وزارت کشاورزی قرار می‌گیرند تا به استانهای جنوبی ایران ارسال گردد سموم خشک کش هدیه شده از طرف دولت امریکا توسط هواپیماهای سم پاش وزارت کشاورزی صرف مبارزه با ملخ می‌شود تعداد ٥١٨ بشکه سم آلدرین ساخت کارخانه "استافر" امریکا در درون اطاق بزرگ هواپیما بارگیری شده بود این نمونه بلائی است که بر سر محصولات استانهای جنوبی کشور وارد آمده است 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 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Progress of Iran No. 60. This bulletin is published every two weeks. Part of the aid that the American government gave Iran for the fight against the Moroccan locust was a gift of 14,000 kg of aldrin [dieldrin] poison, which was handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture on 11 Ordibehesht, and the rest of the aid will arrive in Iran gradually. Mr. Brown [name uncertain], head of the American economic operations mission in Iran, presents one of the cans of poison made for locust control to Engineer Kazem Fatemi, deputy minister of agriculture of Iran. The cans of aldrin from the giant American aircraft are placed in the Ministry of Agriculture's trucks to be sent to the southern provinces of Iran. The insecticides gifted by the American government are used by the Ministry of Agriculture's spray aircraft in the fight against locusts. 518 cans of aldrin poison made by the American 'Stauffer' factory had been loaded inside the large cabin of the aircraft. This is an example of the plague that has fallen on the crops of the country's southern provinces. 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 poster's text says 'aldrin' (آلدرین) in the captions while the cans read 'Dieldrin' in Latin letters; the translation follows the printed Persian. Names and the can count are read with uncertainty. [← American Political System exhibit poster (Chinese poster distributed in Taipei)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-political-system-exhibit-chinese-taipei-1958/) [You Stir...I'll Season! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-you-stir-ill-season-1958/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.