Tasnim News Agency

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 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]

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]

Media related to Tasnim at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in Persian)