Amir Taheri

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Amir Taheri ( Persian امیر طاهری; Born June 9, 1942 in Ahvaz ) is an Iranian journalist and author. He deals with the political issues of the Middle East , Islam and Islamism .

Life

Taheri was editor-in-chief of the largest Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan (“a very influential position”) under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from 1972 to 1979 and has lived in exile in London since the Islamic revolution . From 1980 to 1984 he was Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times and from 1985 to 1987 he was editor-in-chief of the 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 Der Spiegel and Die Welt . He currently works for the Focus , National Review and the New York Post . His books have been translated into up to 20 languages. Taheri became known as a controversial author, in particular through analyzes of the state system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the relationship of the Federal Republic of Germany, which he simply accuses of collaboration , with Iran and the rapprochement between the USA and Tehran, which he describes as the “preventive surrender” of the West.

criticism

Bahman Nirumand criticizes Taheri's statements (Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution, 1985) on several points:

“Taheri's statements must be read with caution. Many of the events in Khomeini's life that Taheri describes in detail are pure products of the imagination. He arbitrarily brings together various events that are temporally apart, lets his pen run free and thus constructs new historical facts. "

- Bahman Nirumand : With God for power

Shaul Bakhash, a professor at George Mason University , examined the notes in Taheri's book: Nest of Spies for The New Republic magazine and found nonexistent sources as well as a distorted application of the sources used. Bakhash concluded that Nest of Spies was a type of book that gave contemporary history a bad name.

In a column in the New York Post , Taheri named former Iranian ambassador Javad Zarif to the UN as one of the students believed to be responsible for the hostage-taking of Tehran . In The Nation magazine , a professor contradicts that Zarif was studying with him at Francisco State University.

The May 18, 2006 editorial of the Canadian National Post newspaper in which Taheri claimed that the Iranian Parliament had passed a law requiring the clothing of Jewish Iranians to be marked with yellow stripes, Iranian Christians with red stripes, and Zoroastrians with blue stripes , had to be withdrawn as untrue the following day . Taheri sticks to his portrayal.

In April 2007, Focus reported on an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert under the heading “Whirling around interview with Olmert” : “The Prime Minister's office then questioned the whole interview and claimed that it was at the meeting with Amir Taheri I was talking about a background discussion. "

Jörg Lau published on his blog an extended excerpt from an article by Taheri in the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat , but curtailed, on Wikipedia nominating, he "is not a very reliable analysts" that he had very strong with the neocon project a common in the new Middle East.

Works

  • Amir Taheri: The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution , Hutchinson (August 1985) - in German: Chomeini 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 (September 19, 1991). ISBN 978-0-09-174860-9
  • Amir Taheri: Murder for Allah. Terrorism on behalf of the mullahs. Droemer Knaur (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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research ( Memento of September 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Taheri: A Death Obsession . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1984 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Iran and the West . Lecture by Amir Taheri on March 4th, 2009 in Berlin
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Taheri Interview . In: Konkret , March 17, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 87.230.94.22
  5. ^ Spiegel online from April 17, 2009
  6. ↑ Bahman Nirumand: With God for Power . Page 355 ff
  7. ↑ The Nation, June 14, 2006
  8. ↑ Bunkum From Benador Larry Cohler-Esses, The Nation, July 3, 2006
  9. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: blogger.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / photos1.blogger.com
  10. ↑ Chris Wattie  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . National Post , May 19, 2006@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nationalpost.com  
  11. ↑ Douglas Kelly ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . National Post , May 24, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalpost.com
  12. ↑ Amir Taheri addresses queries about dress code story ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Benador Associates , May 22, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.benadorassociates.com
  13. ↑ Amir Taheri: Ten Days, a Thousand Tomahawks , Focus online, April 30, 2007
  14. ^ Vortex about interview with Olmert , Focus online, April 29, 2007
  15. ↑ Jörg Lau: How Iran is sledding with Obama. ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: blog.zeit.de, March 27, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.zeit.de
personal data
SURNAME Taheri, Amir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahvaz