Freelance journalist working closely with the MBC team, writing articles, translating pieces of news to Persian/Farsi, and publishing them on MBC webpage.

I worked as the correspondent of Radio Free Europe/Radio Farda in the United Arab Emirates. My main duty was to initiate, develop, report, produce and edit news and feature stories of relevant events in the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, as well as all news related to Iran and Iranians living in that region.

I worked as the official translator for United Nations agencies in Tehran, Iran from 1997 to 2006. During this period, I translated more than 400 articles and booklets, including the translation of “UNICEF- Convention on the Rights of the Child”.

Working as a journalist and translator with the Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun, Tehran Bureau, in 2002-2003. This was an intense experience of news gathering, highlighted with a trip to Iraqi Kurdistan in the wake of U.S. Iraq war in 2003.

I worked as sales manager for Epson printers and LG monitors for the Office Machines Manufacturing and Trading Company in Iran. My responsibility was to place orders, negotiate the optimum price, target the proper segments of market, handle and maintain a dealership network of 250 dealers around Iran and accomplish a sales volume of over US$1 million per month. I had seven sales personnel under my supervision, planned sales targets in a very competitive environment with a good degree of success in gaining market share and promoting Epson printers in Iran.

Sales manager of Varz Company, a manufacturer of motor mowers and diesel engines under license of well-known Italian companies. My duty was to establish, train and maintain a network of regional dealers for sales and after-sales services of agricultural machinery. One of my duties was to coordinate field tests and road shows for newly produced machinery in different agricultural regions of Iran under supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture. I participated in many international fairs and exhibitions, introducing and promoting our products, and I also attended the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and Pacific Regional Network for Agricultural Machinery (Agrimach 95), in Thailand, as a designated private sector manufacturer of agricultural machinery for that year.