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.