Rudi Bakhtiar Biography
Rudi Bakhtiar is an American television producer and journalist. In Washington, D.C., she works as a producer for Reuters. She is most recognized for her work as an anchor on CNN Headline News Tonight, Anderson Cooper 360, Voice of America, and Reuters News.
Rudi Bakhtiar Age
Bakhtiar is 56 years old as of 2022. She was born Rudabeh Carleen Bakhtiar on 21 June 1966 in Fresno, California, United States.
Rudi Bakhtiar Family
Bakhtiar was born in Iran to Iranian immigrants of Bakhtiari ancestry. Her father died in 2005 from oropharyngeal cancer. Bakhtiar has two younger siblings: a brother and a sister. Shapour Bakhtiar, Rudi Bakhtiar’s father’s uncle, was Iran’s last prime minister under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Bakhtiar’s great aunt was the Shah of Iran’s second wife (Soraya Esfandiary). Sardar Jang is Bakhtiar’s great-name. grandfather’s
Her family relocated from Fresno to Los Angeles when she was two years old. Her family returned to Iran when she was five years old, where she was raised until the 1979 Iranian Revolution. When she was 17, her family returned to the United States. She used to enjoy riding horses as a child.
Rudi Bakhtiar Husband
Bakhtiar hasn’t revealed any information about her husband or children. We’re looking into her dating life and will update the information as soon as we have more information.
Rudi Bakhtiar Education
Bakhtiar studied biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1990, intending to become a dentist. She was accepted to New York University Dental School, but she had reservations about attending. She also studied architecture at the Harvard School of Design’s Career Discovery Program.
Rudi Bakhtiar Salary
Bakhtiar earns an annual salary of $ 33,774.
Rudi Bakhtiar Net Worth
Bakhtiar has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Rudi Bakhtiar Career
Bakhtiar joined CNN in 1996 and held a variety of positions during her nine-year tenure, including anchoring CNN Headline News Tonight on the CNN Headline News network. She has worked as a dedicated correspondent for Anderson Cooper 360 and co-anchored CNN’s Emmy-nominated CNN Newsroom. She has reported from a variety of European, African, and Middle Eastern countries, including Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Iran, Israel, and Palestine.
She also hosted CNN’s Headline News coverage of the September 11th attacks. After nearly ten years in cable news, she left to care for her dying father. Bakhtiar joined Fox News Channel in January 2006 as a general correspondent, covering major international news events such as the Ahmadinejad-al-Maliki summit in Tehran in September 2006 and Saddam Hussein’s trial and execution later that year. Fox News terminated Bakhtiar’s contract in 2007 after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against then-Fox Washington Bureau Chief Brian Wilson.
Bakhtiar changed careers in 2008 to become the first director of public relations for the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, an organization dedicated to giving Iranian Americans a more inclusive and representative voice in the public and political spheres. There, she produced “Profiles of Iranian Americans,” minidocumentaries about 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 fired for her strong stance on Iran’s human rights violations. Bakhtiar testified before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Iran’s human rights crisis in May 2011, claiming that under Ayatollah Khamenei’s leadership, “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.”
Bakhtiar worked on an unfinished documentary about Turkey after the failed 2016 Turkish coup attempt and before Michael Flynn was officially named President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor. A Turkish businessman paid the Flynn Intel Group, a lobbying group in the United States, more than US$500,000 for the film’s production, but he insisted on remaining anonymous. Bakhtiar complained that she was not given the opportunity to present a balanced view of the events, and that the documentary would demolish Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan blamed for the coup attempt and wants extradited to Turkey from the United States. Bakhtiar stated in June 2017 that she had not been contacted by anyone investigating Mr. Flynn; however, by November 2017, it was reported that FBI agents investigating Flynn had contacted Bakhtiar.
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