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Rudi Bakhtiar (born "Rudabeh Bakhtiar" on June 21, 1969) is a producer for Thomson Reuters television. She is most known for anchoring a prime time national three hour news cast in the United States, called "CNN Headline News Tonight". She also anchored other high profile newscasts for CNN, including Anderson Cooper 360. She has over a decade of experience working for major international news outlets CNN, Voice of America, and Reuters News. ==Career== Bakhtiar joined CNN in 1996 and held multiple positions in her 9 years at the cable news network, including anchoring "CNN Headline News Tonight" on the spin-off network, CNN Headline News. She also co-anchored CNN's Emmy nominated ''CNN Newsroom'', and worked as a dedicated correspondent for "Anderson Cooper 360". Throughout her cable news career, she has reported on assignments from numerous countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle-East, including Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Iran, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. She also anchored the start of CNN's coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Bakhtiar joined FOX News Channel (FNC) as a general correspondent in January 2006, reporting on major international news stories such as the Ahmadinejad-al-Maliki summit in Tehran, in September 2006, and the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein, in December of the same year. In 2008, Bakhtiar switched careers to became the first Director of Public Relations for the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, an organization dedicated to building an inclusive and representative voice in the public and political arena for Iranian Americans. There, she produced mini-documentaries called ''"Profiles of Iranian Americans"'' which focused on the lives of successful Iranian Americans. She also created and produced the organization's signature star-studded community event ''"Passing the Torch of Success"'' before being pushed out of the organization due to her strong stance on Iran's human rights violations. In May 2011, Bakhtiar testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee on Iran's human rights crisis, claiming under the leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei "Iran has become one of the worst violators of human rights in the world...egregiously violating virtually every article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, of which Iran is a member state." 〔http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=8c389421-5056-a032-52a6-a8cb423d66ec〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudi Bakhtiar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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