Azad News Agency (ANA) (Persian: خبرگزاری دانشگاه آزاد (آنا)) is an Iranian news agency which was launched[1][2][3][4] 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.
[5] Hassan Karbalai was the former "chief executive officer" of it.
[6] According to the agency head:[7][8] "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.”[9][10][11]