Negar Mortazavi

Negar Mortazavi (Persian: نگار مرتضوی; born 1981) is an Iranian-American journalist and political analyst based in Washington DC. She is a columnist for The Independent[1] and host of the Iran Podcast.[2]

Negar Mortazavi
Born1981 (age 40–41)
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian, American
Alma mater
OccupationJournalist, political analyst

Early life

Mortazavi was born in Tehran, Iran. She went to school in Germany for two years, and later immigrated to the United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Arts from Brandeis University.[3]

Career

Mortazavi has written for Foreign Policy magazine,[4] Politico, the Huffington Post, and the Intercept.[5] She is a frequent commentator on Iranian affairs and US foreign policy who has appeared on MSNBC,[6] the BBC, PRI,[7] Aljazeera,[8] and international outlets in France, China, Turkey, and Israel.

Mortazavi worked as a TV presenter at Voice of America Persian where she hosted a daily show that discussed current affairs with Iranians.[9]

In 2020, Mortazavi obtained documents via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the United States Department of State, showing that the USDoS had continued to work with the sponsor of the “Iran Disinformation Project," even after the project's $1.5 million grant was cancelled in 2019 as a result of the project's Twitter attacks on critics of the Trump administration's policies toward Iran.[10][5]

Mortazavi previously worked for the International Center for Journalists,[11] the National Iranian American Council (NIAC),[12] and the United Nations headquarters in New York.[12]

Recognition

In 2014, The Guardian newspaper named her one of the top ten people to follow on Twitter for Iran news and commentary.[13]

In 2017 Mortazavi was named a European Young Leader by Friends of Europe.[14]

In 2020 Mortazavi was named a MENA-American next generation leader in foreign policy and national security by New America.[15]

References
  1. "Negar Mortazavi". The Independent. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  2. "The Iran Podcast • A podcast on Anchor". Anchor. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  3. "2021 | News Archives". heller.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  4. "Negar Mortazavi".
  5. "State Department Cut Funding for Controversial "Iran Disinfo" Project — but Kept Working with its Creators".
  6. "Articles on MSNBC by Mortazavi". MSNBC.
  7. "Negar Mortazavi on Public Radio International".
  8. "Hurdles Still Remain in Iran Nuclear Deal". Al Jazeera America. July 2015. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  9. "VOA PNN Rooyekhat". Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  10. "US cuts funds for 'anti-propaganda' Iran group that trolled activists". The Guardian. 2019-05-31.
  11. "Perspectives on the Iranian Nuclear Framework Agreement".
  12. NIAC Welcomes New Media and Communications Staff at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-03-04)
  13. Iran: top 10 people to follow on Twitter. The Guardian (Report). 20 May 2014. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  14. "European Young Leaders, 2017". Friends of Europe.
  15. "2020 Middle Eastern and North African American National Security & Foreign Policy Next Generation Leaders". New America. Archived from the original on 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
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