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Fars News Agency. 16,059 likes 414 talking about this. The latest news, reports, photos and videos of Iran and the Middle-East in English. Please visit. The Fars News Agency (FNA) is a news agency in Iran.While it describes itself as 'Iran's leading independent news agency', 1 it is widely described by news media to be a 'semi-official' news agency of the Government of Iran. 2 3 4 History. Fars News Agency was founded in 2003. 5 In addition to Persian reporting, the agency also provides news in English, 6 Turkish 7 and Arabic.
language of website[edit]
Question: is the main non-English content of Fars website in Arabic or Farsi? -- The Anome 07:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- The content on the pages www.farsnews.net and www.farsnews.ir are both written in Farsi, with links on the top right of the page to languages in this order (as of writing this): Arabic, Turkish, English. BostonFenian (talk) 20:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Semi-official status[edit]
It would appear the article was much more coherent until editor 'Russobat' removed a lot of pertinent text back in 2007. I added information regarding its claims of independence and references to it as a semi-official agency before noticing this. Can someone vet the earlier content and restore it perhaps?Traumerei (talk) 03:12, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Founding date[edit]
I've removed: It was founded in 2002 to 'promote the principles of the Islamic Revolution and safeguard national interests'. I can only find this quote on mirrors of wikipedia and this google news search brings back articles from 1986 quoting FNA. Does anyone have a source that says when it was founded? Smartse (talk) 20:54, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
CNN?[edit]
'semi-official' news agency which has ties to the government.'This is a joke, it has been proved over and over that CNN had psi-ops staff working inside it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.74.151.201 (talk) 16:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean, can you elaborate? Thanks SmartSE (talk) 16:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Alleged time machine[edit]
there's no any proof that fars news published anything about time machine: story is based on anti-iranian telegraph which atributed it to fars news, and Iran has denied such story. I removed it, along with synthesis about rewording titles with dead links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.165.157.220 (talk) 18:26, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
beside of it, there's one user which want to attribute conspiracy theories to fars news, and there's explanation inside of article about whole case - it's not from Iran but Russia and Canada, and it was attributed to fars news by Jewish American bloger Max Fisher. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.165.157.220 (talk) 18:32, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
- 109.165.157.220, these two comments of yours do not create any consensus for a major rewrite or major content removal. Also, people might take you more seriously if you create a user account. That will create your own personal talk page, which will help as well. —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:16, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Is that mean that anyone can put childish propaganda about 'time machines' and 'alliens' with reference to blogs, tabloids, even broken links? It's pathetic political game by Jewish American blogger with purpose of discrediting Agency. Serious article should contain material from academic books and works, and I don't see any. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.165.136.137 (talk) 05:29, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- 109.165.157.220, please create an account. It is difficult to take you seriously when you bring up the religion of a 'bloger'. We don't care what someone's religion is; we care that they are telling the truth. If you believe that the particular religion attributed to the 'bloger' indicates dishonesty or lack of reliability, that is your problem, not ours. Please build a consensus for your changes here, and base your arguments on facts, not religious persuasions. —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Look, there's no secret that Israelis and Iranians hate eachother and also spread propaganda against eachother. Mentioned bloger is Max Fisher, a Zionist to be precise. If you check article once again you'll see I added some rational criticism written by scholar for academic publication. I can create account, I need to check how --109.165.136.137 (talk) 05:53, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Please note that you are past the 3 revert rule and any further reverts will be considered edit warring. EvergreenFir (talk) 05:54, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Look, there's no secret that Israelis and Iranians hate eachother and also spread propaganda against eachother. Mentioned bloger is Max Fisher, a Zionist to be precise. If you check article once again you'll see I added some rational criticism written by scholar for academic publication. I can create account, I need to check how --109.165.136.137 (talk) 05:53, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Oh great, I sent you message one minute later. It wasn't reverting actually but improving article with reliable material.--109.165.136.137 (talk) 05:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
Due and undue weight for content[edit]
I'm curious why the article, as it stands, contains so little information about the publication itself (i.e. publication history, ownership, political slant etc.), like, for instance The Guardian article does. Instead, it seems to be a collection of silly articles published by the publication. I'm not sure that it's particularly encyclopedic for an article such as this to focus mostly on mistakes by the publication. There are badly sourced news articles published all the time but we don't focus entire articles around them --80.193.191.143 (talk) 09:16, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
You are right! This page is heavily biased against Farsnews and there are no counter/alternative POVs to balance the page. I'm going to tag the article for neutrality. Strivingsoul (talk) 16:02, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
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