About Arya News Agency

Arya News Agency

Arya News Agency is an Iranian news agency publishing from Tehran in Persian and English at aryanews.com. It describes itself as an official and independent Iranian news agency, with the slogan "Transparent, honest and professional movement in information dissemination." Its site organises its reporting into news groups covering Iran, the world, the economy, sports and technology, and it operates as part of a wider Arya Group that also includes a strategic studies centre, a technology company and a publishing house. Iranian media directories list Arya among the country's news agencies, and its English service carries Iranian and international reporting to readers outside Iran.

Identity and slogan

The agency's self-presentation rests on two words: official and independent. Official, in the Iranian media context, denotes a licensed, recognised agency; independent sets it apart from the state-owned and institutionally affiliated agencies that dominate the Iranian system. Its slogan — a transparent, honest and professional movement in information dissemination — states the values it asks to be judged by. These declarations appear on its English site, where the agency introduces itself to international readers, and they frame its place in the market: a privately positioned general news agency competing for readers against the large state and semi-official wires.

News groups and coverage

Arya organises its output into five declared news groups: Iran, World, Economy, Sports and Technology. Its Iran coverage follows the country's politics and public life closely, including the statements of the Foreign Ministry and the judiciary. Its world coverage is broad and wire-like in character, ranging across the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, and its English pages carry international agency-style reporting on subjects from Gaza and Ukraine to American and British politics. Economy, sports and technology complete a general-agency structure in miniature, mirroring the desk system of Iran's larger news agencies at a smaller scale.

The Arya Group

The agency does not stand alone. Its site lists an Arya Group comprising the Arya Strategic Studies Center, Arya Smart Land Company and the Arya Pioneers of Thought Publishing House, alongside the news agency itself. That structure — research, technology and publishing grouped around a media core — is the agency's institutional context: the strategic studies centre suggests an analytical ambition beyond daily news, the publishing house a presence in print culture, and the technology company a commercial arm. The news agency is the public face of the group, and its "About us", contact, RSS and archive facilities present it as a full-service modern news site.

Iran reporting in the English service

The English service reports Iranian affairs in the same terms as its Persian parent. When Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected European claims that Tehran was stalling negotiations, Arya carried his position in full: Iran was not seeking to waste time, had entered the process seriously, and intended to reach a fair agreement, alongside his condemnation of Western support for Israel's war in Gaza and his account of the case of an Iranian national arrested in France. When the judiciary announced the execution of Ali Ardestani, convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and of receiving payment in digital currency, Arya reported the announcement and the official account of the case. Such items show the English desk functioning as a conduit for Iranian official positions to an international audience.

Coverage of protest and unrest

Arya's English reporting also covers Iran's domestic crises. Reporting on the protests that began over the rising cost of living in late December and spread nationwide, it described the authorities grappling with the most significant domestic unrest in several years, the execution of a man convicted of spying amid the unrest, and the arrests of prominent reformist figures — including Azar Mansouri, head of Iran's Reform Front, the former diplomat Mohsen Aminzadeh and the former parliamentarian Ebrahim Asgharzadeh — accused by the judiciary of disrupting the country's political and social order at a time of military threats from the United States and Israel. The reports combine Iranian official statements with the assessments of outside monitors such as the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency and the Norway-based Iran Human Rights organisation, giving its English readers both the state's account and its critics' figures.

Its coverage of the nuclear file shows the same method at work on fast-moving diplomacy. In February 2026 reporting, Arya described Iran examining regional proposals to ease tensions with the United States and expecting a framework for talks within days: the Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed that indirect negotiations were ongoing and that regional countries were acting as mediators in the exchange of messages, while the agency also relayed reports that President Pezeshkian had ordered the resumption of nuclear talks, attributing them to the Fars News Agency and noting their carriage by the government newspaper Iran and the reformist daily Shargh. The item is characteristic of the service: official confirmation, attributed agency reporting and domestic press reaction assembled into a single account for English readers.

International reporting

Beyond Iran, the English service functions as a general international news site. Its pages have carried reporting on Israel's decision to halt the operations of several humanitarian organisations in Gaza, on American politics, on the Russia-Ukraine war including proposals for trilateral talks, and on defence cooperation among Qatar, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia. White House statements on Iran — such as spokesperson Karoline Leavitt's remark that Iran would be wise to make a deal amid an American military build-up, delivered a day after a second round of indirect nuclear talks — are reported with the context of the Geneva negotiations and the differing Iranian and American accounts of them. The breadth is that of a wire-fed international desk, selected and presented for readers following world affairs from an Iranian vantage point.

Position in the Iranian agency landscape

Iran supports dozens of news agencies: the state Islamic Republic News Agency, semi-official agencies such as Mehr, Fars and Tasnim, specialist services for energy, sport, books and the seminaries, and a tier of smaller general agencies of which Arya is one. Directories of Iranian media have long listed Arya News among the country's agencies, publishing general news from Tehran in Persian. In that crowded field, Arya's distinguishing marks are its declared independence, its bilingual Persian-English presence, and its location within a group that combines news with strategic studies and publishing.

Digital presence

The agency is a creature of the web: it publishes continuously online, maintains searchable archives and RSS feeds, and presents its news groups and group companies through its site rather than through print or broadcast products. Its English pages date their reporting to the day and organise recommended stories around each article, the standard grammar of contemporary online news. For international readers, the English service offers a window into how an Iranian agency reports both its own country and the world — including the terminology and framing of Iranian official discourse, rendered in English by an Iranian newsroom.

The agency today

Arya News Agency continues to publish from Tehran in Persian and English, covering Iran, the world, the economy, sports and technology under its slogan of transparent, honest and professional information dissemination. As one of the smaller general agencies in a system dominated by large state and semi-official wires, it represents the independent tier of Iranian agency journalism: licensed and official in status, self-directed in its presentation, and organised as the media arm of a group that also pursues research, technology and publishing.