Biography

Negar Mortazavi is an Iranian-American journalist, political analyst, editor and host of the Iran Podcast. She is based in Washington DC Mortazavi was born in Tehran, Iran. She immigrated to the United States in 2002 as a student. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Arts from Brandeis University. Since 2009 she has been forced into exile from the Iranian regime because of her journalism work. Negar Mortazavi is a journalist and commentator, editor and host of the Iran Podcast, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP). Mortazavi worked as a TV reporter and presenter at Voice of America's Persian and English[9] services from 2010 to 2014, where she hosted a daily talk show on current affairs named Straight Talk (Rooye Khat) and interviewed prominent figures including boxing champion Muhammad Ali, former American hostage in Iran Sarah Shourd, former U.S. Under Secretary of Treasury David S. Cohen, former United States Persian Spokesperson Alan Eyre, and many others. This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Negar_Mortazavi, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License