The channel has received media attention for its reporting on human rights violations, political developments, LGBTQ+ rights and women’s rights in Homeland and has twice been nominated for International Channel of the Year by the Association for International Broadcasting.It is also known that the channel has ties with the Saudi Arabian royal family, with some funding for the channel coming from people closely associated with the same, such that the Persian government has specified the tethering of IR International’s activities as a prerequisite for normalization of its disturbed diplomatic relations with the Saudi administration.