Negar Mortazavi

Negar Mortazavi (born 1981 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American journalist covering Iran in English and Persian. She writes, reports and tweets on Iran extensively and is a frequent commentator on Iran at MSNBC,[1] BBC,[2] PRI,[3] New York Times,[4] Aljazeera,[5] Huffington Post,[6] and international outlets across the world in Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Switzerland, and Japan.

Negar Mortazavi
Born
نگار مرتضوی

1981 (age 38–39)
NationalityIranian
(1981－)
American
(2012－)
Alma mater
Occupationjournalist

Mortazavi was born and raised in Iran and moved to the US in 2002 to continue her studies. She has a Master of Arts from Brandeis University and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Massachusetts.[7] She worked as a TV presenter at Voice of America Persian where she hosted a daily hour-long interactive show that discussed current affairs with Iranians across the world.[8]

NIAC affiliation

She started serving National Iranian American Council (NIAC) as director of Persian & new media in 2014.[7]

In 2020, three Republican senators Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz and Mike Braun claimed that NIAC organization has violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) since they are "amplifying [Iranian Islamic] regime propaganda in the United States". They requested the US Attorney-General William Barr to carry an investigation on this matter.[9][10][11]


gollark: OH APIOFORMS, my webcrawler code was SO VAGUELY BAD.
gollark: Yes, that is the shadily appropriate way.
gollark: RFS works because you have a human there to interpret it very freeformly.
gollark: That wouldn't really work.
gollark: But it's probable that this person does not really know what they want and will be annoyed when it doesn't do exactly what they want.

References
  1. Search | MSNBC
  2. BBC World Have Your Say: Syria "Stalemate", Rouhani's Iran & the UK Veil Debate - YouTube
  3. Negar Mortazavi | Public Radio International
  4. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=negar+mortazavi
  5. Hurdles Still Remain in Iran Nuclear Deal | Al Jazeera America
  6. HuffPost Live
  7. NIAC Welcomes New Media and Communications Staff | NIAC
  8. VOA PNN Rooyekhat - YouTube
  9. Jerusalem Post. "Senators call to investigate pro-Iran group - report". Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  10. BBC. "سه سناتور خواستار تحقیق درباره گروه ایرانی آمریکایی نایاک شدند". Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  11. Deutsche Welle. "نامه سه سناتور به دادگستری آمریکا برای بررسی پرونده "نایاک"". Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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