Hazhir Teimourian's Website
Hazhir Teimourian is one of the best-known commentators on the Middle East. He gives over 500 radio and television interviews a year to major Western broadcasters, from ABC in Australia to NBC and CBS in the United States.
He was born in the Kurdish highlands of Iran in 1940 and at the age of nineteen came to England to study. In 1968, he became a broadcaster with the Persian Service of the BBC in London and stayed there until 1980, when he was invited by The Times to join it as a writer specialising in the Middle East. During the crisis of the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait, he wrote a daily column in The Times and was employed by BBC Television News as one of its main commentators. During the recent Iraqi war, he was a mainstay of Britain’s ITN and contributed to many others, including the BBC. Since 1996, he has been a freelance writer and commentator.
His Biography of Omar Khayyam (the eleventh century Persian free-thinker, mathematician and poet) is on the point of publication in October 2007 and he is a founder member of the Limehouse Group of Analysts.
He has installed an ISDN Radio Studio at his home in London.
"His exposure of Iran's human rights record is devastating"
New York Times editorial, April 10, 1989.
"Only Hazhir Teimourian warned us all these years of the ambitions of Saddam Hussein"
The late Brian Redhead, Today Programme, BBC Radio Four, autumn 1990.
"Your column in The Times is the first thing I go to every morning"
David Steel, leader of the Liberal Democratic party, London, February 1991.
“Critics’ Choice (his autobiographical talks on BBC Radio Four). He is a natural broadcaster, if ever there was one”
The Times, August 1998.
"You're my favourite commentator on the Middle East"
Sir Jimmy Young - "BBC Radio 2, Summer 2002.
“It’s a shame to see that sane voices such as Hazhir Teimourian’s are being drowned in this hysterical anti-war chorus”
Sir John Keegan, Defence Editor, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio Five, March 23, 2003.
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