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Type of site | Broadcast newspaper online and mobile |
|---|---|
| Available in | Arabic, English, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Urdu |
| Founded | 22 June 2003; 22 years ago (2003-06-22) |
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Islamic Development Organization |
| CEO | Mohammad Mahdi Rahmati (since April 2023) Mohammad shojaeian (from September 2019 to April 2023) Ali Asgari (from April 2014 to September 2019) Reza Moghadasi (from October 2010 to April 2014) Parviz Esmaeili (from July 2003 to October 2010) |
| Industry | News agency |
| URL | www |
TheMehr News Agency (MNA;Persian:خبرگزاری مهر,romanized: Xabâr-gozâri Mehr) is a semi-official news agency sponsored by thegovernment of Iran.[1][2] It is headquartered inTehran, and is owned by the Iranian government'sIslamic Development Organization (IIDO). Mehr publishes all content on its website under theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.[3]
Established on 22 June 2003,[4] MNA is the most multilingual (transmitting news and photos in six languages) news agency in the Islamic Republic ofIran. The first CEO and Director General was Parviz Esmaeili, and its current CEO and Director General is Mohammad Mahdi Rahmati.[5] The director of the agency is selected by theSupreme Leader of Iran.[2]
MNA includes coverage in the following areas:
MNA has five regional centers inside the country—northern, southern, central, eastern, and western Iran.
It has alsostringers 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 ofPersian,English,Arabic,Turkish,Urdu andKurdish.
Employing more than 300 reporters and photographers dispatched in 30 provinces of the country, MNA provides the widest news coverage in Iran.[citation needed]
The news agency was accepted as the 40th member of theOrganization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA)[6] at the 13th General Assembly[7] held inJakarta,Indonesia, in 2007. The agency was the host agency of the OANA[8] 31st Executive Board Meeting (EBM) and the 25th Editorial-Technical Experts Group (ETEG) Meeting in 2009.[9] It had also actively participated in two international summits – the 2009 World Media Summit[10][11] inBeijing,China, and the 2010 OANA Summit Congress[12] inSeoul,South Korea.
The agency was also a special guest of the III News Agencies’ World Congress (NAWC)[13] inArgentina from 19 to 23 October 2010.
MNA also participated in theIstanbul OANA General Assembly[14] in November 2010 and the OANA 26th ETEG - 32nd EBM meetings[15] inUlaanbaatar in June 2011.
According to the OANA[8] Secretary's report to theIstanbul Assembly, MNA, which has become OANA[8] member since 2007, ranked second among the OANA[8] member agencies in number of news and photos published on the organization's website. MNA initiated the OANA[8] flag,[16] and the 50-year-old OANA[8] adopted the flag.
In 2006, Mehr News Agency was described by theAnti-Defamation League as a "megaphone for notoriousHolocaust deniers" because it had published interviews withArthur Butz,Michael A. Hoffman II,Fredrick Toben,Paul Fromm,Mark Weber andRobert Faurisson.[17][18]
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