Masoud Behnoud (born 1946) is a journalist, He began his career as a journalist in 1964. Since then he has worked as an investigating journalist for different newspapers.Behnoud lives in the United Kingdom and works as a journalist for a number of media organisations, mainly BBC Persian Service, for which he has worked for the past fourteen years. His debut in the West was the launch of ‘Khanoum’, by Pegasus Elliott McKenzie in November 2008.