Tasnim News Agency

Tasnim News Agency (Persian: خبرگزاری تسنیم‎) is a private news agency in Iran launched in 2012. Its purpose is to cover a variety of political, social, economic and international subjects along with other fields.[2] All its content is licensed as Creative Commons.

Tasnim News Agency
TypeBroadcast newspaper online and mobile
Country
Iran
FoundedNovember 11, 2012 (2012-11-11)
Headquarters12th Avenue, Mirzaye Shirazi Street, Tehran, Iran
Broadcast area
Worldwide
OwnerIslamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO)
Key people
Majid Gholizadeh
(chairman)[1]
Official website
Tasnim News Agency

Profile

Its stated aims are to "[defend] the Islamic Republic against negative media propaganda campaign and providing our readers with realities on the ground about Iran and Islam."[3]

As of 2014, Tasnim's main headquarters for news is based in Iran's capital Tehran, with reporters across the country and region sending in reports.

Tasnim has strong links with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). On 10 April 2013 the IRGC chief Mohammad Ali Jafari visited the Tasnim headquarters and was quoted by the news agency saying "The faithful and Revolutionary media have today a very heavy duty in confronting anti-islamic and anti-human plots of the oppressors".[4]

Tasnim English News

Tasnim News Agency maintains a department staffed with dual language speakers of both English and Persian which translates some of the agency's articles into English.[5]

Controversy

A report from the Anti-Defamation League from 3 April 2020 wrote that the COVID-19 pandemic conspiracy theories are based on the idea that Israel and Jews are using the coronavirus for world domination (see Antisemitic canard). For instance, Iranian Member of Parliament Gholamali Jafarzadeh and Iranian state television, including Tasnim have called COVID-19 a “biological attack by the U.S. and the Zionist regime.” The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has similarly called the coronavirus a “Zionist biological terror attack.”[6][7]

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References
  1. "خبرگزاری تسنیم - خبرگزاری تسنیم؛ چشمه‌ی جوشان آگاهی‌بخشی". Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. "Tasnim News Agency launched". Tehran Times. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  3. "About us". Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  4. "Visit of IRGC Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari". Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  5. "Tasnim News Agency". Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  6. https://www.adl.org/blog/battling-covid-iran-regime-makes-jews-its-bogeyman
  7. https://jewishjournal.com/news/313631/adl-report-details-irans-coronavirus-anti-semitism/
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