IRNA External Services

IRNA's administrative efforts are focused on an expansion of its international news branches around the globe. Branches are given the task of producing news items or selecting from those produced by various news agencies, translating and disseminating them through its various news lines.
Its management is also constantly on the look-out for possible new ways of expanding its level of news dissemination in qualitative and quantitative terms. It also seeks to expand its level of cooperation with various foreign news agencies and corporations.
Personnel of IRNA branches abroad are currently in charge of monitoring their respective countries' radio, television, satellite and Internet networks to bring out news items not already found in news dispatches.
The offices also organize regional news dissemination corporationswith IRNA as a member, as well as monitor and program activities of its branches. 

IRNA News Desks

IRNA's editorial board made up of eight main news desks, to wit:

1. Europe and America Desk 
2. Africa and Middle East Desk
3. Asia-Pacific Desk
4. Indian Peninsula and Central Asia Desk 
5. English News Desk: This desk is in charge of sending the 
   most important news gathered from IRNA's various lines, as well as those items acquired through various IRNA cooperation contracts with various news agencies. 
6. Arabic News Desk: The activities of this desk is similar
   with the English News Desk. 
7. Persian Language International News Desk: Staff of this desk are assigned the task of surveying news items dispatched from various IRNA news lines in the country and selecting those which most likely interest foreign readers. These are then rewritten as new items with
   information that are not included as being of no general importance to Iranian readers inside the country added and those that need revision altered. 
8. Foreign News Desk: This desk comprises three monitoring desks in charge of surveying the various foreign radio, television, satellite, Internet and printed media items and selecting the news items that IRNA is interested in. This organization works on a 24-hourbasis and records programs of 23 radio and 13 satellite stations on video or magnetic tapes.
   
   

IRNA News Regions

IRNA has divided its activities into four news regions around
the world manned by four head offices. These are:

A: Middle East and Africa Region
The head office is based in Beirut, Lebanon. It has branch
offices in Ankara, Damascus, Abu Dhabai, Amman and Kuwait. All six offices cover news stories in the entire Middle East and Africa region.

B: Europe and America Region
The head office is based in London, England. It has branch
offices in Bonn, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Sarajevo, Athens, Madrid, New York and Washington. All 10 offices cover news items pertaining to Europe and the North, Central and South American continents.

C: Asia-Pacific Region
The head office of this region is based in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. It has branch offices in Tokyo, Beijing, Islamabad,
Alma Ata, Dushanbe and Ashkhabad. All seven offices cover news stories from Asia and the Oceania region.