Tanaz started working at ITN in July 2000. She is producing and reporting on the 24-hour news channel. She regularly reports for the ITV Morning News as well - she understands if friends do not make an effort to watch the programme as it goes out at 0530. Her pieces can also be heard on News Direct and LBC.

Tanaz has an Economics degree from the University of London. Her first job was at the Sunday Times where she worked for two years on the Foreign Desk. In a slight change of direction she decided to move to broadcasting, because it would be more challenging and varied and started to work as a television researcher.

She made a documentary on Cuban/American relations and worked on a variety of current affairs programmes for the BBC, Channel Four and Channel Five.

To further her career, she went back to college and completed a post-graduate journalism course at City University in London. Alumni include Dermot Murnaghan and Kirsty Lang who are ITN colleagues.

Nazanine joined ITN in August 2000, as a Moneydesk Correspondent, working on a variety of outlets at the company. You can hear her on the radio, where she presents live city bulletins on ITN News Direct 97.3FM , as well as LBC and IRN, where she's a business producer and Correspondent. She also presents live business reports on the ITN News Channel, and has recently begun reading the late updates on Channel 5 News.

Nazanine was born in Tehran and came to London with her family when she was only two. Growing up in London she always wanted to be a journalist, she once told her Infant school teacher she was going to be a Foreign Correspondent. She attended University College London where she gained an Honours degree in Modern European Studies. She then went on to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Westminster, where she had her first taste of radio.

She got her first job as a Newsreader at Sunrise Radio in West London, but left to get some valuable experience in television at Bloomberg Television. Nazanine's ambition is to present her own programme dedicated to personal finance on both radio and television.


Nazanine Moshiri at ITN

Few people have not heard of Christiane Amanpour, CNN senior international correspondent. Born in London, England to an Iranian father and an English mother, Amanpour exemplifies the successful and ambitious face of a modern woman who overcame many obstacles to achieve her dreams. As a child growing up in Iran she once told NEWSWEEK that her desire to become a reporter began the day her Persian grandfather woke her up to say that the Americans had landed on the Moon. One day, she told herself, she would become the first female to be sent there.

Amanpour left Iran on the eve of the revolution to continue her education in England and later the United States where she received a bachelor of arts degree in summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island. Before joining CNN, Amanpour worked as an electronic graphics designer, reporter, anchor and radio producer. In 1983 CNN hired her as an assistant to the network's international assignment desk in Atlanta. Her contribution to the 1985 four-week series, &''Iran: In the Name of God," helped CNN earn its first DuPont award. Images of Christiane Amanpour interviewing the former president Rafsanjani made her the first woman reporter to gain access to the leader of a country that had curtailed women's advancement since the Shah's overthrow. Her professionalism, dedication, fearless and objective reporting in dangerous parts of the world earned her a reputation as a world-class correspondent.

In 1994 Amanpour was named ''Woman of the Year" by the New York Chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications. Having spent years in the world's major trouble-spots, Amanpour married James Rubin, a US State Department official during a low-key ceremony in Italy. In January 2000, during the exciting USA-IRAN football match in California which resulted in a 1-1 draw, Christiane Amanpour and her husband were pictured together covering the game for CNN as thousands of Iranian supporters cheered the game. Recently, Amanpour was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists. This honour recognises significant contributions to journalism. CNN's latest project, Revolutionary Journey, traces Christiane Amanpour's return to Iran twenty years after the overthrow of the Shah. The documentary trails Amanpour as she takes a fresh look at the country she was forced to abandon so long ago.

To read about a recent visit by Christian Amanpour to a group of American-Iranian professionals in California, visit www.keyhanlondon.com by Sadreldin Elahi.

I.F. (IRANFILE) is an independent new journal dedicated to providing accurate information on important political, social and economic issues concerning Iran. The decision to publish this new publication was timed to coincide with a general mood on the part of most parties, and in particular, the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people, who wish to see an end to Iran’s state of estrangement and isolation from the international community – and in particular, from international business arena, whose support and cooperation is essential to providing a secure and prosperous future for the people of Iran.

In future editions, it is our intention to provide a series of unbiased and objective analysis on a wide ranging number of issues, which we perceive to be crucial in providing a correct understanding of the ongoing process of transition and change in what is and will always be one of the world’s most important countries.

Mehrdad Khonsari (Editor & Publisher)

Sirous Sabouri (Research & Production)


Mehrdad Khonsari

There is something in his voice that calms the listener. It is warm, sensitive and melancholic. Every Monday night, Dr. Ali-Reza Nourizadeh reads one of his poems on London’s Radio Spectrum. Born in Tehran to a middle-class family on 24th June 1949, during the Iranian oil nationalisation era, Nourizadeh was destined for an original career. Growing up in the turbulent 1950s during the Mossadeq era it was difficult for any Iranian not to be influenced by the oil nationalisation and the events that followed the 1953 royalist countercoup.

He began his journalistic career in 1967 with the publication of poems, short stories and translations of Arabic articles. "My interest in Arabic stemmed from my admiration for Egypt’s Gamel Abdul Nasser," Nourizadeh admitted. "Somehow, this made me unique amongst non-Arab speaking journalists”. By the time he had enrolled at the Law Faculty Nourizadeh had become deputy-editor of Ferdows newspaper where he established himself as an art, literature and film critic. In 1971 Nourizadeh went to England where he obtained his PHD in Political Science from London University.

Being fluent in Arabic he visited many countries in the Middle East and contributed articles to the Ettela’at newspaper.His first involvement with the NIRT (National Iranian Radio & Television) came with "Letters of a Traveller" an original idea. "We invented an Iranian reporter who was going to travel the world visiting 134 countries," Nourizadeh remembered. "From each country he would write six letters to Tehran each focusing on a topic like politics, economy, religion, culture, art and literature. It was well received by the Iranian public." Upon the tragic death of his father in 1975 Nourizadeh returned to Iran to find that the political scene had begun to change.

"I was now responsible for two live radio shows," he recalled. "One was Sobh Bekheir Iran (Good Morning Iran) and the other called Asraneh (Afternoon)." By the time of the revolution Nourizadeh had become a leading political editor at Ettela’at. The fall of the Shah and Khomeini’s triumph threw Iran into chaos and bloodshed. In February 1979, Nourizadeh was forced to cover the summary trial and execution of four generals.

Two months later he interviewed Amir Abbas Hoveyda at Qasr prison. "Shortly after his trial I went to see him in his cell," Nourizadeh recounted. "He seemed resigned to his fate and asked me if I could get him a few books and some tobacco for his pipe. Hoveyda was one of the most intelligent, cultured and honest prime ministers Iran ever had. His murder was a disgrace." When Ettela’at fell into the hands of extremists, Nourizadeh left the newspaper and started his own journal called Omid Iran (Iran’s Hope) until it was banned. Nourizadeh continued to resist the new regime by distributing cassettes under the title Bahar Sorkh (Red Spring).

In 1981 after being jailed briefly by the revolutionaries, Nourizadeh left Iran for England. "Being a foreigner in this country was hard enough but trying to be a journalist for a British paper seemed impossible," he confessed. Three years later, Nourizadeh joined Dr. Mesbahzadeh, the former editor of Keyhan, to start the London edition but left after a year to pursue his career in journalism. In 1989 following the creation of Radio Spectrum’s Persian Programme by Hossein Ghavimi, Nourizadeh became a weekly contributor. Today, Nourizadeh seems busier than ever working at the CAIS (a consultancy founded by the late Jaffar Raed, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the Shah) as political editor, writing articles for major Arab journals, and publishing books on current issues. At fifty he shows no signs of slowing down. "I’m constantly in demand," he says rushing to answer a call from BBC.

Journalism is not as we know a traditional profession. It is risky, hard work and if you’re not careful extremely dangerous. Then why do it?


Ali-Reza Nourizadeh