Azad News Agency

Azad News Agency (ANA) is an Iranian news agency which was launched    on May 19, 2004 at the Human Science Department of Islamic Azad University. The News-Agency is active in four languages of Persian, English, Arabic and Turkish. The owner of the agency is Islamic Azad University; and Morteza Khalafi-Zadeh is the current CEO of ANA. Hassan Karbalai was the former "chief executive officer" of it.

According to the agency head:

"Azad News Agency was launched in order to develop information dissemination and create a change in the field of university-activities...; On the other hand, ANA is organized to be active in diverse departments of (Islamic) Azad University.”