About Us

Iranian.com is a community site for the Iranian diaspora -- the Iranian
expatriates who care about their identity, culture, music, history,
politics, literature and each other, as well as friends and family
living in Iran.

While registered members of Iranian.com come from all over the world,
most readers are in North America (65%), Europe (18%), Oceana (7%) and the bulk of the remainder in south and southwest Asia. The site has been blocked by most Internet providers in Iran.

Iranian.com was born in July 1995 in New York City. Founder/publisher Jahanshah Javid's objective was to provide a free forum for the introduction, exchange and collection of ideas, stories, images and music related to Iran and Iranians.

We hope the new-and-improved Iranian.com will become a greater community resource.

Jahanshah Javid, PUBLISHER
Born in Abadan, Iran, Javid began his journalism career as a translator for the Iranian state news agency IRNA in 1981. His experience spans the print media to television and radio, including serving as the BBC Persian Service Correspondent in Washington, DC. Jahanshah has a B.A. in Communications and Media Studies from Hunter College in New York City. He has been a San Francisco Bay Area resident since 2000.

Wayne Willis BUSINESS MANAGER
Wayne has had an extensive career in service businesses, including serving as chief executive or
COO of Hyatt Legal Services (a law firm), Voice-Tel Enterprises (a
voicemail company) and interim CEO for a number of internet companies,
including Ditto.com, (a search engine), GE Logisticom (a satellite data
communications network), Cyracom International (a language translation
service), BeNotified Software (telecommunications software developer)
and Healthscribe (a medical transcription company). Wayne is a graduate
of Yale College and the Yale Law School.

Foaad Khosmood, CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER
Based in Northern California, Foaad is a veteran software engineer and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He's also a writer, peace organizer and a former campaign manager. He serves on the US Board of Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII).

Ardalan Payvar, GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Based in San Francisco, CA, Ardalan is a designer/art director at Tact Design (founded by Ardalan in 2000) providing services ranging from logo and identity design to websites and promotional collateral. He has also co-founded (with Shadi Yousefian) a video production company specializing in music videos.