Masoud Behnoud

Masoud Behnoud
مسعود بهنود
Masoud Behnoud on BBC Persian, 2019
Born (1946-08-19) 19 August 1946
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
Occupation(s)Journalist, historian
Years active1964–present
ChildrenNima Behnoud
Bamdad Behnoud

Masoud Behnoud (Persian: مسعود بهنود; born 19 August 1946 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, He began his career as a journalist in 1964. Since then he has worked as an investigating journalist for different newspapers.

Behnoud lives in the United Kingdom and works as a journalist for a number of media organisations, mainly BBC Persian Service, for which he has worked for the past fourteen years. His debut in the West was the launch of ‘Khanoum’, by Pegasus Elliott McKenzie in November 2008.