Behzad Bolour

On 21 March 2009, he presented a combination of Nowruz and music on the occasion of the Iranian New Year on Public Radio International in the United States.

In 2000, he traveled with a BBC team to Peshawar in northern Pakistan, where he trained several groups of local radio programmers to produce political programs for Afghan children from the UK Government. As part of a political plan, the BBC World Service trained citizen journalists who later worked for the BBC Persian. Among his students are Farn Taghizadeh, Ali Hamedani, Nima Akbarpour, and many others.

Behzad Bolour joined BBC Persian in 1992 with the encouragement of Baqer Moin, the then head of the BBC Persian section. By entering the Persian section, Behzad Blour brought the culture of Iran Youth Day to the programs of this radio for Iran and Afghanistan. He began his career on the Seventh Day program with the "Wonders and Westerns" song program, and later produced and performed the entire program.

He launched the BBC Persian entertainment website, hosted live broadcasts of Iranian concerts in Europe and Dubai, and has supported Iranian underground culture and music since its inception in the 1990s. He has also been involved in organizing various cultural events in Britain and Central Asia. Behzad has also trained young journalists in Afghanistan and Iran since 2000.

At the age of 15, he won the National Award for Fine Arts in Iranian High Schools and studied Iranian traditional music. Behzad left Iran in 1983 (he says on his Instagram page that he ran away) and turned to fashion design, interior design, and murals, and recorded a traditional Persian album, which in 1990 paved the way for him in producing music and youth programs, performing, and producing BBC Persian Radio opened and then prepared the entertainment magazine "Rooze Haftom".

Behzad Bolour in 1980, learned the setar instrument from Jalal Zolfonun and then turned to playing the tanbur and komuz. He says that Iranian music had disappeared so much that he learned to play the tambourine out of interest and by listening to ballads and inspiration from the ancient and traditional culture of Iran. In 1983, he formed several music groups in London and released the album Mish by Touch International company.

Behzad Bolour wrote in an article for BBC Persian that during the Iranian Revolution of 1978, several Uzi and Kalashnikov machine guns were entrusted to Behzad's family by a commander who was his family, and we used these weapons to shoot in the air. The first army of the Revolutionary Guards were the fathers of the family, and the family of Bolurfrushan was among them. He goes on to say that some time later the weapons were taken back and the Revolutionary Guards Corps was recognized.

Behzad Bolour or Behzad Bolurforushan (born 23 March 1965), is one of the senior editors and producers of BBC Persian since 1990 and the producer and director of the program "Bolour Banafsh". Behzad is a member of the old family of Bolurforushan in Tehran. He is related on his mother's side to Abbas Mirza Qajar and by his father to the importer of the Nickel silver and Crystal Factory of Iran, Mohammad Hassan Bolurforushan.