Revolution was Sadeq Qotbzadeh. The current director is Peyman Jebelli. The previous directors included Abdulali Ali-Asghari, Mohammad Sarafraz, Ezzatollah Zarghami, Ali Larijani and Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani. The Sima Festival is a TV productions contest sponsored annually by IRIB organization for the best producers, directors, actors and directors in multiple categories. Facts about IRIB IRIB has branches in 20 countries worldwide, including France, India, Belgium, Malaysia, UK, the United States, and broadcasts in more than 30 languages. IRIB broadcasts 12 national television channels, 4 international news television channels, 6 satellite television channels for international viewers, and 30 provincial television channels all around Iran. Fifty percent of those 30 provincial channels use the local accent or dialect. The IRIB provides twelve major radio stations as well, and an international service. IRIB has 27 world service channels. IRIB also has Arabic, Hindi, English, French and Spanish channels, besides the native Persian. Total number of employees: 13,000 to 50,000 45.5% of Iran's youth report trust news broadcast by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). Total budget of IRIB is about $0.9–1 billion which is maintained by advertisement and governmental budget. Affiliates Jam-e Jam is the official organ of the IRIB organization. IRIB News Department is a news agency affiliated to the IRIB organization. IRIB has a movie production company, called Sima Film. IRIB also outsources media production to numerous privately-owned domestic media companies. TAKTA Co. produces technical equipment such as transmission and switching systems for IRIB Soroush Rasaneh Co. IT & ICT Company related to IRIB which provides IPTV services and it has 26 branch offices in Iran. Soroush Multimedia Co. provides CD/DVD of IRIB programs and holds some special short term education in 31 offices all over provinces of Iran. IRIB Pension Fund Co. is the holding company of 17 companies related to IRIB, such as Soroush Multimedia Co., Soroush Rasaneh Co., and TAKTA CO. IRIB University provides some courses related to media IRIB Research Center is responsible for research in the social and religious fields related to media. IRIB Media Trade, known before as Cima Media Int'l, is the sole representative of IRIB in the distribution of its productions (documentaries, feature films, TV series, telefilms and animations) as well as program acquisition for local IRIB TV channels. IRIB HD was a television channel run by IRIB. It was one of the recent television channels in Iran and was launched on June