The home page of Fars News Agency (A semi-official Iranian press agency) offers a number of tabs for the reader to open. Some examples? It's pretty standard: international, politics, economy, sports... But the special tab for nuclear news is quite interesting. I have done extensive research, but found no other press agency or newspaper that had a special 'nuclear' tab. Or a 'defence' one, for that matter.
But when opened, it is unsurprising that they keep a tab on their nuclear and defence news. Almost every day, sometimes twice a day, there seems to be the need to discuss the nuclear programme. Whereas sports news can take more than three weeks to generate anything of interest. The same holds for the arts, a field in which there seems to be very little interest, as it can take over a month to update this part of the website. Culture (art is not culture, of course. Maybe this reveals some of the backdrop to the paucity?) is a little bit better off than arts and sports, as a lot of cooperation pacts with other states can be made in this respect. Because Iran is not an international pariah, of course. Just not so very interested in arts or sports.
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