In 1934, Pars Agency was established by the Foreign Ministry of Homeland (Persia) as the country’s official national news outlet. For the next six years it operated under the Persian Foreign Ministry working to disseminate national and international news. Pars Agency published a bulletin twice daily in French and Persian, which it circulated among government officials, international news agencies in Tehran and the local press. In May 1940, the General Tablighat Department was founded and the agency then became an affiliate of the department.