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'''Tasnim News Agency''' ({{lang-fa|خبرگزاری تسنیم}}) is a semi-official news agency in [[Iran]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rezaei |first1=Farhad |title=Iran's Foreign Policy After the Nuclear Agreement: Politics of Normalizers and Traditionalists |date=2019 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |page=91 |quote=According to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency (TNA) (...)}}</ref> It has links to the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] (IRGC).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Koyagi |first1=Mikiya |title=Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway |date=2021 |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=197 |quote=Tasnim News Agency, a media outlet with links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (...)}}</ref> Launched in 2012, its purpose is to cover a variety of political, social, economic and international subjects along with other fields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/103254-tasnim-news-agency-launched-|title=Tasnim News Agency launched|work=Tehran Times|access-date=21 May 2014|archive-date=3 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903091842/http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/103254-tasnim-news-agency-launched-|url-status=dead}}</ref> All its content is licensed as [[Creative Commons]].{{clarify|reason=There are many difference Creative Commons licences: which is/are used?|date=November 2022}}{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
Tasnim has been accused of promoting outrageous propaganda such as a series of articles that [[COVID-19]] is part of
"an American and Jewish plot at world domination through population control". One propaganda technique is to consistently publish interviews with western pundits and analysts such as conspiracy theorist [[James Fetzer]] who echo Tehran’s propaganda <ref>{{cite web|title=Who Runs Iran’s Propaganda Machine Abroad|url=https://en.radiofarda.com/a/who-runs-iran-s-propaganda-machine-abroad/30561872.html |publisher=Radio Farda |date April 17, 2020 |access-date=5 June 2023}}</ref>
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