[custom_adv] [custom_adv] Talebzadeh was born in 1953. His father Mansour Talebzadeh Ordoubadi, was a general officer serving in the Imperial Iranian Army and his mother was Marie Ordoubadi. The couple had two other children. Talebzadeh's brother, Noah A. McKay, was a medical doctor in McMinnville, Oregon who died in 2009. His sister was Nini Ordoubadi who lived in a barn located in East Meredith, New York with her husband Anthony Chase, as of 2007. [custom_adv] Talebzadeh immigrated to the United States in 1970 and lived in the state of Virginia. Talebzadeh told the Los Angeles Times in 2008 that he studied at the American University. Afterwards, he studied cinema at Now York City's Columbia University. Talebzadeh returned to Iran after in 1979 to film the Revolution. [custom_adv] He became a fixer for American media in capital due to his command in English language and his earlier experiences, working closely with the crew of CBS News, which at the time had about thirty to forty personnel stationed in homeland. He also established contacts in the National Radio and Television, as well as the Ministry of National Guidance. According to Hamid Naficy, Talebzadeh left CBS after he became disillusioned with media portrayal of the revolution by Western outlets. [custom_adv] According to George Michael, Talebzadeh introduced his personal friend Michael Collins Piper to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the two met on the sidelines of a press conference in the New York City after the latter's speech at the United Nations. Piper was then invited to Iran by Ahmadinejad and participated in International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust in 2006.
