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Warehouse 13 Artifact Database Wiki
Printing Press Handle from Ettela'at Newspaper Printing Press

Origin

Iran Chap Organization/ Mohmoud Doai (Editor)

Type

Handle from a Printing Press

Effects

Creates Sandstorms

Downsides

Unknown

Activation

Burying in sand

Collected by

Warehouse 13

Section

Clio-362A

Aisle

984723-34892384

Shelf

2873469-48023500-34141271

Date of Collection

1945

[Source]


Origin[]

Ettela'at is a Persian language daily newspaper published in Iran. It is among the oldest publications in the country. Ettela'at was started in 1926 and has a conservative stance, focusing on political, cultural, social and economic news. An article was written in Ettela'at suggesting that Ayotallah Ruhollah Khomeini, the first supreme ruler of Iran was a homosexual. The next day clerks in Qom protested and the police demanded they disperse. When they refused, police opened fire and at least twenty people were killed. It would have been more however a sandstorm whipped up preventing the police from seeing anyone and allowing the clerks to escape.

Effects[]

Creates Sandstorms when buried in sand, affects a 40 square mile area