Jahanshah Javid

Jahanshah Javid (Persian: جهانشاه جاوید‎); born March 3, 1962 in Abadan, Iran, is an Iranian American Journalist, and the founder and editor of the online publications iranian.com (1995-2012) and iroon.com.[1]

In 1976 he was sent to high school in the U.S. before returning to Iran after graduation in 1980. In 1981 he joined the Islamic Republic News Agency as a translator[2] and worked there until 1989, including three years in IRNA's office in London in 1985-1988. In late 1989 he left Iran and began studying journalism and communication at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and later Hunter College in New York where he received his B.A. in Media Studies in 1995.[3]

In July 1995 he began Iranian.com,[4] an online magazine about Iran and Iranians. Later in 2012 he sold his share of Iranian.com and began a new online publication called iroon.com.

In 1998-1999 he was the BBC Persian Service correspondent in Washington, DC.

He has been living in Cusco, Peru since 2014.