IRNA to open office in Doha

The Iranian cabinet chaired by President Hassan Rouhani agreed to launching of IRNA office in Doha.

IRNA has already 20 offices across the world. 14 offices are managed by the dispatched IRNA correspondents and six of them are administrated by local reporters.

IRNA is the official news agency of Iran. As of 2010, the Managing Director of IRNA is Mohammad Khoddadi. IRNA has 55 offices in Iran.

It was established in 1934, dubbed as Pars Agency. It has several cooperation agreements for exchange of news with the regional and international agencies.

The organization functions as the 'mother source of information dissemination' within the country, feeding its authorities, nationals and various publications with various types of news, bulletins, research works, opinion polls and stories of general interest through its various telex lines.

IRNA also provides channels for online foreign dispatches and photographs around the clock. IRNA's external services include those rendered to leading international news agencies in accordance with contracts signed with them, active membership in international news clubs, up-to-date news stories on the country supplied internationally through its international news line, and an active presence in the Internet through its Persian, English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Turkish and Urdu websites.

Translator: Hamdollah Emadi Heydari

Editor: Hamid Shamlou

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