Iranian-English journalist (born 1958)

Farzad Bazoft

Farzad Bazoft was an Iranian journalist who settled in the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s. He worked as a freelance reporter for The Observer. He was arrested by Iraqi authorities and executed in 1990 after being convicted of spying for Israel while working in Iraq.

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The world in 1990

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april 11 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
april 12 Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
april 12 Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.
april 23 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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