| Type | Broadcast newspaper online and mobile |
|---|---|
| Country | Iran |
| Official website | Mehr News Agency |
The Mehr News Agency (MNA) is an Iranian news agency headquartered in Tehran, owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO).
Established in July 2003, MNA is the most multilingual news agency in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its’ CEO and Director General is currently Reza Moghadasi.
Culture and Art (cinema, theater, music, visual arts); Culture and Literature (poetry, stories, books); Religion and Thought; Seminary and University; Modern Technology; Social; Economic; Political; International; Sports; Nuclear Energy; Sacred Defense, as well as Photos, and Provinces are 14 news fields covered by MNA.
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MNA has five regional centers inside the country—northern, southern, central, eastern, and western Iran—and one regional office outside the country in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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 7 languages of Persian, English, Russian, German, Arabic, Turkish, and Urdu.
Employing more than 300 reporters and photographers dispatched in 30 provinces of the country, MNA provides the widest news coverage in Iran.
The news agency was accepted as the 40th member of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA)[1] at the 13th General Assembly [2] held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2007. The agency was the host agency of the OANA[3] 31st Executive Board Meeting (EBM) and the 25th Editorial-Technical Experts Group (ETEG) Meeting in 2009.[4] It had also active participation in two international summits – the 2009 World Media Summit [5][6] in Beijing, China , and the 2010 OANA Summit Congress[7] in Seoul, South Korea.
The agency was also among the special guests of the III News Agencies’ World Congress (NAWC)[8] in Argentina from Oct.19 to 23, 2010.
MNA also actively participated in the Istanbul OANA General Assembly [9] in November 2010 and the OANA 26th ETEG - 32nd EBM meetings [10] in Ulaanbaatar in June 2011.
According to the OANA [3] Secretary’s report to the Istanbul Assembly, MNA, which has become OANA [3] member since 2007, ranked second among the OANA [3] member agencies in number of news and photos published on the organization’s website. The Mehr News Agency (MNA) initiated the OANA [3] flag,[11] and the 50-year-old OANA [3] adopted the flag.
MNA has so far signed contracts with more than 18 foreign news agencies including the Japanese Kyodo News Agency, the Spanish EFE, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency, the Cuba’s official Prensa Latina (PL), the Russian Interfax Ltd, the Press Trust of India (PTI), Korea's YONHAP, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the Turkish Cihan News Agency, Malaysia’s BERNAMA, Indonesia’s ANTARA, the Azerbaijani Trend News Agency, Mongolia’s MONTSAME, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), and the Philippines News Agency (PNA).