Tasnim News Agency

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Tasnim News Agency
Type Broadcast newspaper online and mobile
Country Iran
Official website
Tasnim News Agency

Tasnim News Agency 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.[1]

Profile

Its stated aims are to defend the Islamic Republic against negative media propaganda campaign and providing readers with realities on the ground about Iran and Islam. The news agency has given large coverage to events such as the Arab Spring otherwise known in Iran Islamic Awakening referring to the uprisings across the Arab World which started in 2009. It also says adds that it is to promote Islamic principles across the world.

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" [2]

Tasnim English News

The English department of Tasnim News Agency, staffed with dual language speakers of both English and Persian provides readers with English versions of articles, news, photos, videos and analyses produced in the Persian department, but not necessarily every piece of the Persian products.[3]

Germanwings Flight 9525

Sports journalist Milad Hojjatoleslami of the Tasnim News Agency and Hossein Javadi of Vatan-e-Emrooz were among the victims of the 24 March 2015, of the Germanwings Flight 9525, which crashed in Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.[4][5]

References

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  4. Two Iranian journalists among dead in Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crash
  5. Iranian journalists among Germanwings crash victims

External links

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