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Sima Sabet
Born	Sima Sabet Zadeh (1979-04-30) April 30, 1979 Zahedan, Iran
Occupation(s)	Journalist, Anchor
Years active	2006-now

Sima Sabet (born April 30, 1979) is a journalist and former anchor for Iran International Television Network.

Life

Sima Sabet Zadeh was born on April 30, 1979 in Zahedan. She holds a bachelor's degree in food technology from Ferdowsi University, a master's degree in international relations, and a PhD in political science from the University of London.

She began her collaboration with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in 2005 and traveled to camps in Afghanistan as a relief worker.

Activities

In 2006, she started working as a journalist for BBC Radio and for a while was the presenter of the morning program "Meshmandaz" on BBC Persian Radio. In 2018, after 12 years, Sabet left BBC Persian Radio and joined Iran International Television Network.

Sabet was the host of the talk show "Meshmandaz with Sima Sabet" on Iran International Television. According to a survey by the Gaman Institute, this program was the most popular program on Iran International and the most watched talk show in Persian language media.

During the first weeks of anti-government protests in various cities in Iran after the killing of Mahsa Amini, Sabet spoke at the European Parliament in Brussels at the invitation of the Human Rights Committee. This speech was a week after the Bloody Friday in Zahedan. In this speech, Sima Sabet referred to the killings of people in Zahedan and Kurdistan and called for the international community's solidarity with the Iranian people.

She was one of the Iranian journalists targeted by the Islamic Republic's terrorist attack. ITV reported that in October 2022, IRGC spies offered a human trafficker $200,000 to kill Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad, but the hired man, who was a double agent, exposed the plot. Initially, the assassination plan was to be carried out with a car bomb, but then the commanders of the Quds Force demanded that Sabet be assassinated with a kitchen knife.

This attempt by the Islamic Republic drew widespread protest reactions internationally and among Iranian political groups. In a coordinated and joint action, Britain and the United States imposed sanctions on several senior commanders of the Quds Force for their participation in the plot to assassinate Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad. The British Foreign Office also summoned the Islamic Republic's chargé d'affaires in London and conveyed Britain's protest to the Islamic Republic.

Hamed Esmaeilion, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, Abdullah Mohtadi, and Reza Pahlavi were among the political figures who, by issuing separate statements and tweets, condemned the Revolutionary Guard Corps' attempt to assassinate Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad and attack journalists. Sabet left Iran International TV in 2024.

Due to the Islamic Republic's repeated threats, the London Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism unit asked Sabet to temporarily stay home and be under security surveillance after the attack on Pouria Zeraati.

Sabet has spoken in numerous interviews with Western media outlets, including Sky News, BBC News and The Guardian have called for a decisive British response to the Islamic Republic's terrorist activities on its soil. She has also advocated adding the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the UK and European Union lists of terrorist groups. He has also published analytical articles in the American magazine The Hill, calling for a change in the West's strategy towards the Islamic Republic, the formation of a global coalition to counter the destabilizing actions of the Iranian government, and global support for the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

See also

• Wikipedia Farsi

References

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• People from Zahedan
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