*I don’t know where she went.
You probably remember her from the graveyard shift at CNN a couple of years back. Rudi Bakhtiar , this Persian beauty is now working for Foxnews as a general reporter for the network, but she can be mostly found at 5pm Eastern time on the “The Big Story with John Gibson” , apparently she was brought on to help his ratings.
Rudi Bakhtiar was born in California (1966), however she was raised in Iran until the revolution in 1979, when the the terrorists took over, (one of which went on to become president of Iran :)).
After arriving back in the states, she got her bachelors in bioligy with hopes of becoming a dentist. Obsviously, that didn’t work out, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this article on her.
Later, Rudi went to work for CNN and well, you know the rest.
From what I have gathered and researched on the internet, Rudi Bakhtiar seems to be a very quiet down to earth person. Politically, it is hard to gauge where she stands.
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The last time I checked, over throwing a propped up U.S. sock puppet lackey, isn’t a terrorist offense. The Shah of Iran was just some guy the U.S. decided to put into power, and our government didn’t seem to concerned with the Iranian’s voting for the Shah at that time either. Propping up a dictator, isn’t democracy.
“After arriving back in the states, she got her bachelors in bioligy with hopes of becoming a dentist.”
If she immigrated here with her parents from a place she was born, which was Iran. How could she arrive back in the states. She has never gone back to Iran, since Shapour Bakhtiar is Rudi Bakhtiar’s father’s uncle, the last Prime Minister of Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a great aunt of Bakhtiar’s was the Shah of Iran’s second wife Soraya Esfandiary. I don’t think her family would be welcomed back with open arms. The Iranian’s wanted the Shah sent back to Iran to execute him. They would probably do the same to any of his relatives, seeing as how the Shah of Iran and his family were the only ones who benefited from his rule at the time.
It is amazing how many simplistic idiots usually pro authoritarian begin their wanton nonsense with “last time I checked” What did you check? When was this last time? What’s the damn relevance of “checking” in this discussion? To describe the thugs of 1979 as democrats or heroes or anything of that kind is simply evidence of a bias toward a party in an ehno racial conflict, not a statment of fact or anything close to it. No doubt these so called revolutionaries are heroes to nationalist and religious extremists in their country, but their anachronistic government has hardly shown itself to be more enlightened even then what they overthrew. These were religious extremeists, and most socialist statist elements in this country are fundamentally at odds with religious movements, a material state and a metaphysical church must inevitably collide. Both claim absolute truth. The errors of the Eisenhower administration in risk / situation assessment do not excuse the Persian nation from the lack of social infrastructure which made foreign intervention so easy. The Communist Tudeh party would likely have seized power and ultimately have invited Russian invlvement in local politics and the revolution of 1979 or whenever would have had to be against them. This would have been a better end result for us no doubt, but would have involved a long Afghanistan like war to rid their country of Russian armies.
And while we’re on it, if you are so in favor of the mullah regime go live there and see 1) If they will let you in or show you the same love you show to them 2)Whether you persist in the delusion that their way of life is better if they were to let you in. Do not live here, partake in the benefits of THIS society while corruptly praising another which you obviously are actually seeking to avoid since you remain here. Why don’t you take up arms and try to overthrow the “evil” regime here yourself? How can you posit your own definition of justice as being better than that of the society here when you admire thugs like those of 1979? Go to hell you frak!
The first guy made a good point. The united states could give a fuck about democracy in a country as long as they are more or less serving our purposes. (see Saudi Arabia)
I think when Iranian women mix with various races, they are some of the most beautiful women (Sarah Shahi as a second example). No wonder the crazy Arabs want to keep them in burkhas….
Rudi was on live during 9-11. I continue to do research on this and am still on the fence.
Just after, she disapeared for a while and then ended up at fox. It is ironic of course that she speaks fluent Farsi and several other dialetcs of Arabic fluently. It is also strange that she was taken off the air just shortly after an e-mail went to CNN stating that she was a spook.
Go figure.
Wayne