VETERAN IRANIAN JOURNALIST HOOSHANG VAZIRI DIED
PARIS, 4 Sept. (IPS) Hooshang Vaziri, a veteran Iranian journalist and commentator died Wednesday in Paris, of hepatic complication, his family and friends announced.
Educated in Germany, Mr. Vaziri, who was 73, was Editor of "Ayandegan", one of the three main Iranian newspapers before the Islamic revolution of 1979, where he made his name as one of Iran’s best political commentators.
Like many Iranian intellectuals and journalists, he also lived Iran for France, where he took over as the Editor of the London and Paris-based "Keyhan of London" a Persian-language weekly newspaper.
Not only Mr. Vaziri was an audacious commentator, but also a very good translator, having translated the works of many leading German philosophers and writers into Farsi.
"I think Mr. Vaziri was one of our best thinking commentators, since he would do his best to convince his readers", said Mr. Ahmad Ahrar, another leading Iranian columnist and journalist at Keyhan of London. ENDS VAZIRI DIED 4903