Tasnim News Agency

Tasnim News Agency (Persian: خبرگزاری تسنیم) is a semi-official news agency in Iran[2] associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).[3] Launched in 2012, its purpose is to cover a variety of political, social, economic and international subjects along with other fields.[4]

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 Revolutionary Guard Corps
Key people
Majid Gholizadeh
(chairman)[1]
Official website
Tasnim News Agency
LanguagePersian, English, Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Hebrew

Background

In Islam, Tasnim (تسنیم) is the name of a spring in Paradise from which those nearest to Allah are said to be able to drink. Tasnim's stated goal is to "[defend] the Islamic Republic against negative media propaganda campaigns and provide our readers with realities on the ground about Iran and Islam."[5]

Tasnim is headquarted in Iran's capital Tehran, with reporters across the country and the Middle East.

Affiliation

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) controls Tasnim, which often magnifies the IRGC's ideology.[3][6][7] During a visit to Tasnim's offices in 2023, then-IRGC commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari stated "The faithful and revolutionary media have today a very heavy duty in confronting anti-Islamic and anti-human plots of the oppressors".[8]

Non-Farsi versions

Tasnim staff includes English speakers, who translate some of the agency's articles into English.[9] In 2022, Tasnim launched a Hebre-language website.[10][11] In 2023, Sputnik signed a deal with Tasnim to launch a Russian website.[12]

Incidents

In August 2023, the Afghan Taliban detained a photographer for Tasnim.[13]

COVID-19 pandemic

According to the Anti-Defamation League, Tasnim has alleged in a series of propaganda articles that COVID-19 was 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."[14]

References
  1. "خبرگزاری تسنیم - خبرگزاری تسنیم؛ چشمه‌ی جوشان آگاهی‌بخشی". Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. Rezaei, Farhad (2019). Iran's Foreign Policy After the Nuclear Agreement: Politics of Normalizers and Traditionalists. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 91. According to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency (TNA) (...)
  3. Koyagi, Mikiya (2021). Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway. Stanford University Press. p. 197. Tasnim News Agency, a media outlet with links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (...)
  4. "Tasnim News Agency launched". Tehran Times. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  5. "About us". Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  6. Vatanka, Alex (2017-01-30). "IRGC-Controlled Media Continue to Glorify Iraqi Shiite Militias". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  7. "Who Runs Iran's Propaganda Machine Abroad". Radio Free Europe. 2020-04-17. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  8. "Visit of IRGC Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari". Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  9. "Tasnim News Agency". Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  10. "חדשות באיראן ובעולם | Tasnim News Agency".
  11. "Tasnim News Agency Launches Website in Hebrew Language - Society/Culture news". Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved Nov 22, 2022.
  12. "Iran's Tasnim, Russia's Sputnik Ink Cooperation Deal - Society/Culture news". Tasnim News Agency.
  13. https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/08/22/2944928/taliban-detain-iranian-photojournalist
  14. Lerner, Shaya; Weinberg, David Andrew (April 3, 2020). "Battling COVID, Iran Regime Makes Jews its Bogeyman". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved March 16, 2020.

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