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'''Alireza Nourizadeh''' ({{lang-fa|علی‌رضا نوری‌زاده}}, born 24 June 1949 in [[Tehran]]<ref>http://www.iaijournalist.org/en/?page_id=11</ref>) is an [[Iran]]ian [[journalist]] and [[political activist]].
'''Alireza Nourizadeh''' ({{lang-fa|علی‌رضا نوری‌زاده}}, born 24 June 1949 in [[Tehran]]<ref>http://www.iaijournalist.org/en/?page_id=11</ref>) is an [[Iran]]ian [[scholar]], [[Persian literature|literary figure]], journalist and an expert on Iranian contemporary history.


==Career==
==Career==
Nourizadeh is a political refugee from Iran. After fleeing to Great Britain, he obtained his PhD from the [[University of London]] in International Relations. Nourizadeh himself has been active in the Iranian journalistic milieu since 1967. He is a senior researcher and director at the Centre for Arab & Iranian Studies strongly opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.<ref>[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GD23Ak02.html Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He is also a correspondent for [[Deutsche Welle]] (German Radio), a Political Commentator for the radio channel [[Voice of America]], a senior writer for the Saudi Arabian [[Al-Sharq Al-Awsat]].

Nourizadeh is a political refugee from Iran. After fleeing to Great Britain, he obtained his PhD from the [[University of London]] in International Relations. Nourizadeh himself has been active in the Iranian journalistic milieu since 1967. Before [[Iranian Revolution]], he was editor of ''[[Ettela'at]]'',<ref name="zeitvogel">{{cite web|last=Zeitvogel|first=Karin|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gh4lcTPOm-i0oyv1OLqSCJoI7IFQ?docId=CNG.1dff4967a55ae8abcbd6eaf7c6e42f82.01&hl=en|title=Iranians unite in grief at service for shah's son|work=AFP|date=23 January 2011|accessdate=26 August 2013}}</ref> a strongly pro-[[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah]] Iranian daily. After his son [[Ali-Reza Pahlavi]] killed himself in 2011, Nourizadeh has called it as "a tragedy for the Iranian people".<ref name="zeitvogel"/> He is a senior researcher and director at the Centre for Arab & Iranian Studies strongly opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.<ref>[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GD23Ak02.html Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Nourizadeh is also a correspondent for [[Deutsche Welle]] (German Radio), a Political Commentator for the radio channel [[Voice of America]], a senior writer for the Saudi Arabian [[Al-Sharq Al-Awsat]]. In June 2013, three days after [[Hassan Rouhani]] was elected as president of Iran, Israeli news website [[Ynetnews]] reported Nourizadeh's claim that Rouhani's son "committed suicide in protest of his father's close connection with Supreme Leader [[Ali Khamenei]]".<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4393748,00.html|title=Son's suicide is Rohani's dark secret|work=Ynet news|accessdate=18 June 2013}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Amir Taheri]]
*[[Chain murders of Iran]]


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Iranian journalists]]
[[Category:Iranian journalists]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of London]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of London]]



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Voice of America, 2011

Alireza Nourizadeh (Template:Lang-fa, born 24 June 1949 in Tehran[1]) is an Iranian scholar, literary figure, journalist and an expert on Iranian contemporary history.

Career

Nourizadeh is a political refugee from Iran. After fleeing to Great Britain, he obtained his PhD from the University of London in International Relations. Nourizadeh himself has been active in the Iranian journalistic milieu since 1967. He is a senior researcher and director at the Centre for Arab & Iranian Studies strongly opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.[2] He is also a correspondent for Deutsche Welle (German Radio), a Political Commentator for the radio channel Voice of America, a senior writer for the Saudi Arabian Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

Personal life

Nourizadeh is also the father of director Nima Nourizadeh, director of 2012 film Project X and electronic music producers Omid 16B and Navid.[3]

See also

References

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