The Mehr News Agency (MNA; ''Xabâr-gozâri Mehr''; "Mehr News Agency") is a semi-official news agency of the
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian government. It is headquartered in
Tehran
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, and is owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO).
History and profile
Established on 22 June 2003, MNA is the most multilingual (transmitting news and photos in six languages) news agency in the Islamic Republic of
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
and its first CEO and Director General was Parviz Esmaeili and its current CEO and Director General is Mohammad Shojaeian (since September 2019).
MNA includes coverage in the following areas:
* Art (cinema, theater, music, visual arts)
* Culture and literature (poetry, stories, books)
* Religion and thought
* Seminary and university
* Modern Technology
* Social
* Economy
* Political
* International
* Sports
* Magazines
* Photos
* Provinces
MNA has five regional centers inside the country—northern, southern, central, eastern, and western Iran.
It has also stringers and correspondents in Europe, South America, Turkey, East Asia, and some Persian Gulf littoral states and CIS countries for the time–being and is extending them across the world.
It transmits news and photos in six languages of
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
,
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
,
Arabic
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,
Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
.
Employing more than 300 reporters and photographers dispatched in 30 provinces of the country, MNA provides the widest news coverage in Iran.
Jakarta
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,
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, in 2007. The agency was the host agency of the OANAOrganization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies 31st Executive Board Meeting (EBM) and the 25th Editorial-Technical Experts Group (ETEG) Meeting in 2009. It had also actively participated in two international summits – the 2009 World Media Summit in
Beijing
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,
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, and the 2010 OANA Summit Congress in
Seoul
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,
South Korea
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.
The agency was also a special guest of the III News Agencies’ World Congress (NAWC) in
Argentina
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from 19 to 23 October 2010.
MNA also actively participated in the
Istanbul
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OANA General Assembly in November 2010 and the OANA 26th ETEG - 32nd EBM meetings in
Ulan Bator
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in June 2011.
According to the OANA Secretary's report to the
Istanbul
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Assembly, MNA, which has become OANA member since 2007, ranked second among the OANA member agencies in number of news and photos published on the organization's website. MNA initiated the OANA flag, and the 50-year-old OANA adopted the flag.
MNA has so far signed contracts with more than 20 foreign news agencies including the Japanese
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, the Spanish
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, the Chinese
Xinhua
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(PTI), Korea's
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Cihan News Agency
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and
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, Georgia's PVNA, Zimbabwe's New Ziana, Romania's
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as a "megaphone for notorious Holocaust deniers" as they interview with known Holocaust denier
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