Author's Biography
Alireza Jafarzadeh is the president of
Strategic
Policy Consulting, Inc. He is also an international
Foreign Affairs Analyst, specializing on Iran, Iraq, and the
middle east. He is a regular contributor to such media as
the Fox News and the CNN.
Alireza Jafarzadeh is a well-known authority on issues
relating to terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism in Iraq,
Iran, and the Middle East; Iran’s nuclear weapons program;
and its internal political developments, including
anti-government demonstrations, the student movement, and
human rights.
The international concerns about Iran’s nuclear weapons
program have largely arisen from Jafarzadeh’s stunning
revelations of more than a dozen major previously secret
nuclear sites, including the sites in Natanz, Arak, Lashkar
Ab'ad, and Tehran.
Jafarzadeh revealed the existence of the Natanz uranium
enrichment facility, and Arak's heavy water facility in
August 2002, the Kalaye Electric Company's centrifuge
testing facility near Tehran in February 2003, the Lashkar
Ab'ad laser enrichment facility in May 2003 and a new
nuclear site in Ardekan in July 2003.
In April 2004,
Jafarzadeh revealed that Iran, using some 400 nuclear
experts, is running a secret nuclear weapons program
supervised by the military and the Supreme Leader parallel
to its overt nuclear energy program.
Jafarzadeh revealed in March 2005 that Iran has built a
secret underground facility in Tehran’s Parchin military
complex where activities related to laser enrichment are
carried out. In August 2005, he exposed new details about A.
Q. Khan's network and its long standing relations with the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC).
In September and November 2005, and in January 2006,
Jafarzadeh exposed a number of underground facilities
near Tehran, used for WMD research and development.
Jafarzadeh revealed in January 2006 how Iran's president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had sped up the uranium enrichment
program, and that Iran has prepared some 5000 centrifuge
machines to be installed in the Natanz uranium enrichment
facility.
In March 2006, he revealed how the IRGC is deeply involved
in the nuclear weapons program, conducting nuclear research
and development.
Jafarzadeh unveiled the details of Iran’s development of
bio-weapons in May 2003, and had previously provided
valuable information about the Shahab-3 medium range
missile.
Jafarzadeh first disclosed the details of Iran’s
involvement in the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi
Arabia, and the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Community Center
in Argentina.
In November 2003,
Jafarzadeh exposed an extensive covert network of the
Iranian regime’s agents who had been involved, for months,
in meddling in the internal affairs of Iraq, seeking to
derail the political process and establish a sister Islamic
Republic in Iraq.
As an accomplished analyst, Jafarzadeh has frequently
appeared on major television and radio broadcasts including
Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CBS Evening News, NBC, ABC,
BBC, Sky News, ITN, VOA, and NPR, to discuss Iran’s WMD
program and terrorist activities around the world.
Jafarzadeh has published essays in, and been interviewed
by, news outlets including the New York Times, Washington
Post, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune,
Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science
Monitor, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe,
Miami Herald, Newsday, Austin-American Statesman, Time,
Newsweek, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times,
Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Associated
Press, Reuters, AFP, United Press International,
Space & Missile, Defense Week, and Arms
Control Today.
Jafarzadeh has lectured in Georgetown University,
University of Michigan, and National War College, and has
been a frequent speaker at briefings, hearings and luncheons
at the US Congress, the United Nations, Chicago Council on
Foreign Relations, American University, National Young
Leaders Conference, and the Morning Newsmaker Program at the
National Press Club in Washington, DC.
Prior to becoming a contributor for FOX News Channel, and
until August 2003,
Jafarzadeh acted for a dozen years as the chief
congressional liaison and media spokesperson for the US
representative office of Iran’s parliament in exile, the
National
Council of Resistance of Iran.
Jafarzadeh earned his Bachelor’s degree from the
University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, and his Master’s
degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas, in
Austin.
