Hamid Golpira

Hamid Golpira
Hamid Golpira
Born	January 16, 1960; Baltimore, Maryland, US
Died	July 7, 2015 (aged 55); Arad General Hospital, Tehran, Iran
Occupation(s)	Journalist; writer
Years active	1980s–2015
Notable credit(s)	Press TV Commentator; (2009–2015); Tehran Times Writer; (1999–2015)

Hamid Golpira (

human rights activist. He was a senior editor for the Tehran Times from 2000 to 2015. Golpira was renowned in the Iranian English language community for his defense of Palestine, Islam and Islamic socialism. He was a frequent commentator on Press TV, Iran's English language 24-hour news station as well as writing for various written publications.^[1]

Family and education

Golpira was born in

Islamic Republic of Iran, the country of his parents before they relocated to the United States prior to the Iranian Revolution

of 1979.

Career

Golpira was one of

NSA.^[3] He was also noted as one of the original English language journalism teachers in Iran, with many current foreign based journalists and correspondents being taught by him. Homa Lezgee

noted Golpira as her main journalism mentor during her time working for Iranian Press.

As cited in, King of Terror, Golpira remarked on the US' Occupation of Afghanistan saying;

Golpira was a fierce critic of contemporary Iranian cultural life, commenting on the growing influence of

hypercapitalism

on Iranian contemporary society.

In January 2015, Golpira was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He continued to work for both Press TV and Tehran Times until April 2015, also being awarded a special commendation by the Journalists Guild. Before his death, Golpira was also working on his book, Working for a Brighter Day, a collection of his selected articles.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Hamid Golpira died on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 in Tehran's Arad General Hospital where he was undergoing invasive chemotherapy for his lung cancer. He was buried on July, 9 at Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in the Luminaries' Section. He is survived by his sister Roya. Alireza Ramezani of the Financial Tribune paper is quoted as saying, Golpira was the best editor at the Tehran Times during his time there.

References

^ Geramifard, Mehdi. "Hamid Golpira". Retrieved July 10, 2015.
^ Golpira, Hamid. "Red Shia Crescent rising". Tehran Times Portal. Tehran Times. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
^ Daily Motion. "NSA Spying". Daily Motion. Press TV. Retrieved July 10, 2015.

External links

"Iraq smoke screen", Golpira's 2008 opinion column published in the Mehr News Agency

[1] Geramifard, Mehdi. "Hamid Golpira". Retrieved July 10, 2015.

[2] Golpira, Hamid. "Red Shia Crescent rising". Tehran Times Portal. Tehran Times. Retrieved July 10, 2015.

[3] Daily Motion. "NSA Spying". Daily Motion. Press TV. Retrieved July 10, 2015.

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