Career
He has been described as "a specialist on Iran and Islam and is head of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Persian Service" (in 1999) and as "British Broadcasting Corporation"s Central Asia specialist" (2001)
As of August 27, 2000 he was head of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Persian service, a broadcast service so influential in Iran that "even Ayatollah Khomeini listened to it". He is the author of the book Khomeini: Life of the Ayatolla. which the New York Times called "the first serious and accessible examination of the ayatollah"s life." Amazon.com describes him as having written extensively on Islam, Iran and Afghanistan.".
