Iran Primer: Websites for Additional Information

Official news sites

• Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's website
  
• Office of the President's website


• Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
  
• Iranian Parliament's website


• Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA)
  State-run online news agency


• PressTV
  State-run television network broadcast in English. Based in Tehran with several foreign bureaus, including Washington, D.C.


• Tehran Times
  Government-run English daily

Iranian news

• Fars News Agency
  Semi-official news agency


• Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA)
  Reformist-inclined news agency operated by the Worker's House, a labor union set up by the government


• Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA)
  Moderate media organization run by Tehran University students


• Khabar Online
  Pro-Ali Larijani daily, published by the Khabar Publishing Group


• Mehr News Agency
  Private news agency, affiliated with the Tehran Times

Non-governmental websites run outside Iran

• Inside Iran
  Iran-focused project of the Century Foundation


• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran


• Iran Labor Report
  Labor-focused news site


• Iran Times
  Independent weekly established in Washington, D.C.


• Mianeh
  Iran news site affiliated with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting


• Mir Hossein Mousavi Facebook page


• Persian Letters
  Iran blog run by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty


• Radio Zamaneh
  Non-profit media organization established by the Dutch government


• Rooz Online
  Independent agency advocating human rights in Iran


• Tehran Bureau
  Independent news organization in partnership with FRONTLINE, the PBS public affairs series


• Tehran Review
  Daily online magazine

News aggregators

• Iran News Digest
  
• Persia House

Select Persian-language websites

• BBC Persian
  (Persian) The BBC's Persian-language news service


• JARAS
  (Persian) Green Movement site operated from outside Iran


• Kaleme
  (Persian) Affiliated with opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi


• Official website of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani
  (Persian)


• Saham News
  (Persian) Affiliated with opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi


• Sepah News
  (Persian) Official website of the Revolutionary Guards


• Tabnak
  (Persian) Affiliated with former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei, and one of the most popular websites in Iran

Semira Nikou is a research assistant at the U.S. Institute of Peace. This article is presented by Tehran Bureau, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as part of the Iran project at iranprimer.usip.org.