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In this article I used Foucault's theory of discourse 10 study commercial advertising before and after the Iranian revolulion in 1979. By investigating laws and regulations of commercial advertising and socio - political conditions that govern it, \VC distinguished t\VO types of discourses that governed advertising industry in Iran. The first was Information - security discourse before the revolution; and the second was the ideological discourse after revolution.

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