Iranian Political Science Association Research Letter of Political Science 1735790X 15 4 2020 11 21 How did the Iranian state media deal with the Corona crisis? How did the Iranian state media deal with the Corona crisis? 73 96 418 10.22034/ipsa.2020.418 FA Javad Haghgoo Assistant Professor - University of Tehran 0000-0003-1259-2528 Gholamali Soleymani UT Journal Article 2020 07 20 The behavior of the media in any country in the face of natural and unnatural crises is one of the important issues in crisis management. The lack of uniformity in the performance of the media in critical situations challenges the management of public opinion. In this study, by asking the question of how the Iranian state media performed in the first week of the Corona crisis, an attempt was made to provide a conceptual framework and explain the "role of the media in the crisis", the performance of three state news agencies IRNA, IRIB AND FNA Be investigated. For this purpose, using the quantitative content analysis method, the performance of the above three news agencies on the type of strategy chosen to deal with the crisis was examined. The findings show that all three news agencies, from a few days after the onset of the crisis, shifted from a "passive" strategy to an "active" strategy and mobilized most of their capacities to control the crisis. The behavior of the media in any country in the face of natural and unnatural crises is one of the important issues in crisis management. The lack of uniformity in the performance of the media in critical situations challenges the management of public opinion. In this study, by asking the question of how the Iranian state media performed in the first week of the Corona crisis, an attempt was made to provide a conceptual framework and explain the "role of the media in the crisis", the performance of three state news agencies IRNA, IRIB AND FNA Be investigated. For this purpose, using the quantitative content analysis method, the performance of the above three news agencies on the type of strategy chosen to deal with the crisis was examined. The findings show that all three news agencies, from a few days after the onset of the crisis, shifted from a "passive" strategy to an "active" strategy and mobilized most of their capacities to control the crisis. http://www.ipsajournal.ir/article_418_d1f255a373a3cef72e03aa9d980c7eca.pdf