diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index de29c7956..c2fa83918 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@ from .pornhub import (
 from .pornotube import PornotubeIE
 from .pornovoisines import PornoVoisinesIE
 from .pornoxo import PornoXOIE
+from .presstv import PressTVIE
 from .primesharetv import PrimeShareTVIE
 from .promptfile import PromptFileIE
 from .prosiebensat1 import ProSiebenSat1IE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/presstv.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/presstv.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..755e32528
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/presstv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import str_to_int
+
+
+class PressTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?presstv\.ir/[^/]+/(?P<y>[0-9]+)/(?P<m>[0-9]+)/(?P<d>[0-9]+)/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/09/459911/Australian-sewerage-treatment-facility-/',
+        'md5': '5d7e3195a447cb13e9267e931d8dd5a5',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '459911',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Organic mattresses used to clean waste water',
+            'upload_date': '20160409',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg',
+            'description': 'md5:20002e654bbafb6908395a5c0cfcd125'
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        # extract video URL from webpage
+        video_url = self._html_search_regex(r'<input type="hidden" id="inpPlayback" value="([^"]+)" />', webpage,
+                                            'Video URL')
+
+        # build list of available formats
+        # specified in http://www.presstv.ir/Scripts/playback.js
+        base_url = 'http://192.99.219.222:82/presstv'
+        _formats = [
+            ("180p", "_low200.mp4"),
+            ("360p", "_low400.mp4"),
+            ("720p", "_low800.mp4"),
+            ("1080p", ".mp4")
+        ]
+
+        formats = []
+        for fmt in _formats:
+            format_id, extension = fmt
+            formats.append({
+                'url': base_url + video_url[:-4] + extension,
+                'format_id': format_id
+            })
+
+        # extract video metadata
+        title = self._html_search_meta('title', webpage, 'Title', True)
+        title = title.partition('-')[2].strip()
+
+        thumbnail = self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage)
+        description = self._og_search_description(webpage)
+
+        match = re.match(PressTVIE._VALID_URL, url)
+        upload_date = '%04d%02d%02d' % (
+            str_to_int(match.group('y')),
+            str_to_int(match.group('m')),
+            str_to_int(match.group('d'))
+        )
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'formats': formats,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+            'upload_date': upload_date,
+            'description': description
+        }