Tasnim News Agency

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Tasnim News Agency

Type	Broadcast newspaper online and mobile
Country	Iran
Founded	November 11, 2012; 9 years ago (2012-11-11)
Headquarters	12th Avenue, Mirzaye Shirazi Street, Tehran, Iran
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Owner	Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO)
Key people	Majid Gholizadeh (chairman)[1]
Official website	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.

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 Islamic Revolutionary Guard 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]

COVID-19 pandemic[]

According to a report from the Anti-Defamation League, Tasnim has alleged in a series of articles that COVID-19 is part of "an American and Jewish plot at world domination through population control" hatched by Henry Kissinger, who is described as "the unique Jewish scholar and American strategist" and "a master controller of government and international finance."^[6]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tasnim.

• Official website (in Persian)
• instagram.com/tasnimnews_Fa/ (in Persian)
• twitter.com/tasnimnews_Fa/ (in Persian)
• twitter.com/tasnimnews_EN/ (in English)

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