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News from Iran

932,907 news articles from publishers in Iran, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.

The busiest publisher in this slice is www.mehrnews.com with 132,043 articles, 14.2% of the total, followed by khabarban.com, www.irna.ir. By language it splits into Persian (863,542), English (10,623), Arabic (1,691) and 11 more. Daily volume averages about 11,926 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 18,822 on 2026-10-18.

932,907
articles in the index
2.24%
of the whole corpus
31,096
per day on average

Fetch it

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IR&date=today&sort=date&size=20"

No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description, publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text if you ask for it with full_text=true.

Count it

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=IR&top=20"

Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.

Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Iran articles, read country_source — and add strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US template default.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IR&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"

Latest from this slice

The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.

Who publishes it

The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.

PublisherArticlesShare API
www.mehrnews.com132,04314.2%query
khabarban.com79,5118.5%query
www.irna.ir62,9116.7%query
sayeb.ir52,6245.6%query
www.irib-news.ir49,3065.3%query
www.khabaronline.ir46,7075.0%query
www.isna.ir36,7693.9%query
negarmag.com35,6243.8%query
www.yjc.ir26,2212.8%query
snn.ir26,2132.8%query
www.javanonline.ir24,3792.6%query
www.imna.ir23,5242.5%query
webangah.ir17,4811.9%query
www.tabnak.ir14,0341.5%query
ana.ir13,3111.4%query
www.hamshahrionline.ir11,9591.3%query
dana.ir11,6761.3%query
iqna.ir11,5761.2%query
www.ettelaat.com11,1791.2%query
www.khabarvarzeshi.com11,1431.2%query
www.eghtesadonline.com10,6051.1%query
aftabnews.ir10,1971.1%query
www.iscanews.ir9,7081.0%query
www.entekhab.ir8,7400.9%query
www.qudsonline.ir8,3090.9%query

Languages published in Iran

What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.

CodeNameArticlesShare
faPersian863,54292.6%
enEnglish10,6231.1%
arArabic1,6910.2%
swSwahili1,0150.1%
ckbckb5420.1%
haHausa3640.0%
esSpanish2830.0%
tgtg2180.0%
kmrkmr1940.0%
prsprs1170.0%
zhChinese310.0%
balbal300.0%
frFrench250.0%
itItalian40.0%

Domain zones used by Iran publishers

Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.

CodeNameArticlesShare
irIran573,55361.5%
comglobal commercial348,31337.3%
newsnews publications8,2380.9%
orgorganisations2,4390.3%
netglobal network2410.0%
ngongo1190.0%
onlineonline40.0%

Volume by day

How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.

DayArticles
2026-10-2210,997
2026-10-2113,305
2026-10-206,015
2026-10-194,443
2026-10-1818,822
2026-10-1718,236
2026-10-1610,983
2026-10-1512,607
2026-10-1417,795
2026-10-1317,304
2026-10-1217,254
2026-10-1118,911
2026-10-1017,622
2026-10-0911,058

Combine with other filters

bash
# Iran, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IR&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"

# Iran, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IR&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"

# Iran, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IR&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"

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