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 control of them. The groups are as follows: English version of this news agency's website is designed, programmed and launched by Aref Mohammadzadeh, former Director of International Affairs and Secretary of International Desk of IANA and current director of this news agency. The new Persian version of IANA is designed, programmed and launched by Moj Network Developer ICT Co., Ltd., which is under control and management of Aref Mohammadzadeh. 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.