Tasnim News Agency ( fa, خبرگزاری تسنیم) is a semi-official news agency in
Iran. It has links to the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Launched in 2012, its purpose is to cover a variety of political, social, economic and international subjects along with other fields. All its content is licensed as
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Profile
Its stated aims are to "
efendthe
Islamic Republic
The term Islamic republic has been used in different ways. Some Muslim religious leaders have used it as the name for a theoretical form of Islamic theocratic government enforcing sharia, or laws compatible with sharia. The term has also been u ...
against negative media propaganda campaign and providing our readers with realities on the ground about Iran and
Islam
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."
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".
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.
Tasnim Hebrew News
Tasnim Hebrew News officially started publishing news on 3 January 2022.
COVID-19 pandemic
According to a report from the
Anti-Defamation League
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, 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."
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2012 establishments in Iran
Government agencies established in 2012
News agencies based in Iran
Multilingual news services
Mass media in Tehran
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Politics of Iran
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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