IRNA News Desks
IRNA's editorial board is made up of eight main news desks, to wit:
- Europe and America Desk
- Africa and Middle East Desk
- Asia-Pacific Desk
- Indian Peninsula and Central Asia Desk
- 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.
- Arabic News Desk: The activities of this desk is similar with the English News Desk.
- 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 most likely to 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.
- 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.
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