Mehr News Agency

Mehr News Agency is a semi-official Iranian news agency founded in 2003 and affiliated with the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization. Its English edition covers Iranian politics, economy, culture and international affairs.

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Mehr News Agency at a glance

Country: Iran
Region: Türkiye, Iran and Iraq · Middle East and North Africa
Kind of outlet: News agency
Editorial leaning: Centrist
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Is Mehr News Agency left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?

Mehr News Agency is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style. In Iran, Tehran Times and Press TV are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Mehr News Agency beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read Mehr News Agency beside another title from Iran and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so Mehr News Agency is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in Iran headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because Mehr News Agency is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Iran either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Where Mehr News Agency sits in Iran's press

Mehr News Agency is one of 5 outlets tracked in Iran, and one of 2 news agencies among them — the other being IRNA. By outlets tracked, Iran ranks 16th of the 20 countries on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub, which lists 99 outlets in all.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, Crosswire tracks 10 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Mehr News Agency outside Iran, starting with Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, are SANA (Syria), WAFA (Palestine), KUNA (Kuwait) and Saba (Sanaa) (Yemen). Opening one of them beside Mehr News Agency is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.