Rossiya Segodnya Director General, Dmitry Kiselev, and IRNA Managing Director, Mohammad Khodaddi, sealed the agreement. The parties have agreed toexchange information, hold joint events, and strengthen media cooperation betweenRussia and Iran.
IRNA Managing Director Mohammad Khodaddi said: Cooperation withinfluential foreign news agencies is onIRNA agenda. We believe that direct news exchange betweennews agencies is the only way tocounter one-way flow ofinformation inthe world. Therefore, cooperation betweenIRNA asofficial news agency ofthe Islamic Republic ofIran and Rossiya Segodnya and Sputnik will have important role inintroducing potential capacities ofcooperation betweenIran and Russia inall fields.
Sputnik is a news agency and radio network withmultimedia news hubs indozens ofcountries. Sputnik broadcasts throughits websites inover 30 languages, aswell ason analog and digital radio, mobile apps, and social media. Sputnik newswires, available bysubscription, 24/7 inEnglish, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese.
IRNA is a state-run news agency ofthe IslamicRepublic ofIran established in1934. One ofthe mostrespected and quoted media inthe country, the agency publishes daily news inFarsi, Urdu, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Turkish.
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