Screenshots from Iranian SMS advertisements sent by “Hamrahe Avval” and its subcontractor advertising agencies in 2012.
These postcards were drawn by the political cartoonist Kem (Kimon Evan Marengo 1907-1988), who during the Second World War produced over 3,000 propaganda cartoons for the British Ministry of Information.
In 1951 the offices of the United States Information and Education Services (though this title cannot be found on Google) in Iran was located in Shah-Abad avenue (currently known as Jomhouri).
A collection of propaganda posters, published by the British during the World War II, in Persian for distribution in Iran. The posters’s dimensions are about 76cm X 50cm. These posters are preserved in Imperial War Museums.
Akhbar magazine (meaning “News”) was a monthly magazine published by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Iran.
These pages are from issues number 5 and 6, published in May and June of 1980 and have been provided by Mehrdad Kashani.
“Regained Glory” (published in 1974, illustrated by Dino Attanasio) is a comic book that narrates the official pro-Shah history of post-WWII Iran up to early 1970s. The book is targeted towards the young adults.
Old post cards of Ayatollah Khomeini, published in the early years of the Iranian revolution (1978-1979).
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