Amir Taheri

Amir Taheri ( born June 9, 1942 in Ahvaz ) is an Iranian journalist and author. It deals with the political topic Middle East, Islam and Islamism.

Life

Taheri was 1972-1979 editor in chief of Iran's largest daily newspaper Kayhan ( " a very influential position") under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and lives since the Islamic Revolution in exile in London. From 1980 to 1984 he was Middle East correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1985 to 1987, he worked as chief editor for French magazine Jeune Afrique.

As a columnist, he has written articles for numerous international media, including The New York Times, CNN, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Asharq al - Awsat, La Repubblica, L' Express, Le Nouvel Observateur, El Mundo, The Times, and German journals, including The Mirror and the world. He currently works for the Focus, National Review and the New York Post. His books have been translated into up to 20 languages ​​. In particular, by analyzing the state system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the ratio of the Federal Republic of Germany, which he simply accuses collaboration with Iran and the approach of the U.S. to Tehran, which he called " preventive capitulation " of the West, Taheri was known as the controversial author.

Criticism

Bahman Taheri criticized Nirumand information ( Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution, 1985) at several points:

" Taheri information must be read with caution. Many events of Khomeini's life that are marked Taheri detailed pure fantasy products. Various events that are separated in time, it brings together arbitrarily, lets his pen run free and designed new historical facts. "

Shaul Bakhash, a professor at George Mason University examined for the magazine The New Republic notes in Taheri Book: Nest of Spies and found not existing sources and the sources used a distorted application of the same firm. Bakhash summed up, Nest of Spies was a book type who legally have a bad reputation of contemporary history.

In a column in the New York Post Taheri described the former Iranian Ambassador Javad Zarif at the UN as one of the student who is to be responsible for the kidnapping of Tehran. In the magazine The Nation contradicts a professor, Zarif have then studied at the San Francisco State University with him.

The editorial in the Canadian newspaper National Post of 18 May 2006, in which Taheri claimed that the Iranian parliament had passed a law that would require the labeling of clothing of Jewish Iranians with yellow stripes, Iranian Christians with red stripes and the Zoroastrians with blue stripes, had to be withdrawn as untrue the following day. Taheri maintains its representation.

With the heading " swirl around interview with Olmert, " reported the Focus in April 2007 on an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: "The Office of the Prime Minister then presented the full interview in question, claiming that it was at the meeting with Amir Taheri had acted in a background briefing. "

Works

• Amir Taheri: The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution, Hutchinson ( August 1985) - in German: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution. Hoffmann and Campe (1985). ISBN 978-3-455-08237-1
• Amir Taheri: Nest of Spies. Hutchinson ( June 1988). ISBN 978-0-09-173458-9
• Amir Taheri: The Unknown Life of the Shah. Hutchinson (19 September 1991). ISBN 978-0-09-174860-9
• Amir Taheri: Morden for Allah. Terrorism on behalf of the mullahs. Earthscan ( January 2000). ISBN 978-3-426-77020-7
• Amir Taheri: The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist revolution. Encounter Books (May 18, 2009). ISBN 978-1-59403-240-0