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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 many other fields.[4]
Background
In Islam, Tasnim (تسنیم) is the name of a spring in Paradise from which those nearest to God 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 headquartered in Iran's capital Tehran, with reporters across the country and the Middle East.[citation needed]
Affiliation
The IRGC controls Tasnim, which often magnifies the IRGC's ideology. Tasnim is the IRGC's largest owned media outlet.[6][3][7][8] 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".[9]
According to Tehran Bureau, Tasnim plays an active role in the Iranian government's state-led disinformation campaigns against protestors.[6]
History
Tasnim was founded on 30 June 2012 by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Hamidreza Moghaddamfar, board chairman Jafar Darouneh, and CEO Majid Qolizadeh Zahmatkesh. Darouneh was head of Tehran's Department of Education during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[6]
In August 2023, the Afghan Taliban detained a photographer for Tasnim.[10]
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."[11]
Tasnim staff includes English speakers, who translate some of the agency's articles into English.[14] In 2022, Tasnim launched a Hebrew-language website.[15][16] In 2023, Sputnik signed a deal with Tasnim to launch a Russian website.[17]
^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) (...)
^ abKoyagi, 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 (...)
