Iranian Students News Agency - ISNA

The Iranian Students News Agency (Persian: ) (ISNA, Persian: ) established in December 1999, is a news agency run by Iranian university students. SNA covers a variety of national and international topics. Editors and correspondents are themselves students in a variety of subjects, many of them are volunteers (nearly 1000). Abolfazl Fateh,the agencys main founder and first managing director (1999-2005) stated that in the relatively short period after its conception, the agency succeeded in reflecting political, cultural, scientific and social issues in an acceptable manner and succeeded in probing the darker corners of current political issues. ISNA was considered by Western media to be one of the most independent and moderate media organizations in Iran, and is often quoted. It was able to intervene in the social discourse in Iran: foregrounding a social issue, thematizing a discourse and problematizing social issues in order to open up a new kind of discourse Although it is gene...