Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

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Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi is an Iranian writer, film producer and human rights activist. She is considered an expert on pan-Islamist/terrorist network of Iran.

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Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi was born in Tehran in 1961 to Iranian journalist parents. She attended the American University in Paris as well as at the IDHEC, the French institute of higher cinematic studies. In 1982 she came to the United States and continued studies at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She studied film and art history as well as linguistics and semiotics. Banafsheh speaks 7 languages including Persian and has worked in the film industry, as production assistant and second assistant director on several feature and documentary films for the big screen and HBO.

In 1993 Banafsheh returned to the world of TV production, as a freelance line producer of documentary films about the gruesome assassinations of Iranian writers, activists and scholars who opposed the theocratic regime of the Mullahs in Iran at the hands of the secret police of the Mullahs.

In 2001 Banafsheh's father was abducted by the forces of the secret police of the Islamic Republic of Iran, for the 4th time in 22 years.

As a result of her activities over the years, Banafsheh has developed a deep knowledge of the politics, the individuals, the operations, connections and methods of the Islamic Republic of Iran's government and its various proxies within the pan-Islamist/terrorist world. Banafsheh regularly writes for The National Review, Defense & Foreign Affairs and Front Page Magazine. She has appeared on C-Span's Washington Journal and Voice of America TV.

Banafsheh is also the editor of the English department of the website Iran Press News which provides a single source for news on Iran.