TASS After 1971, TASS was elevated to the status of State Committee at the Government of the Soviet Union. The agency was frequently used as a front organization by the Soviet intelligence agencies, such as the NKVD (later KGB) and Main Intelligence Directorate, with TASS employees serving as informants. In 1959, Alexander Alexeyev was dispatched to Cuba on a fact-finding mission, ostensibly working for TASS. In January 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a Presidential Decree signed by Boris Yeltsin re-defined status of TASS and renamed it the "Information Telegraph Agency of Russia". In May 1994 The Russian Government
Iranian Agriculture News Agency Iranian Agriculture News Agency Iranian Agriculture News Agency (IANA) is an Iranian Official news agency focused on agricultural issues of the world countries and introduces that of Iran to the world. Its start dates back to May 2004 with the goal of specialized activities on Agriculture and Rural Development and to help the national network of informing to develop in agriculture sector and to provide information for beneficiaries and specialists and to attend between other written electronic media, offering solving suggestions and establish a dynamic and productive connection with the public thoughts in and out of Iran in order to