Vahid Beheshti, a human rights activist and the director of the Dorr TV global Telegram channel, was born in 1977 in the city of Borujerd. He completed his primary education in mathematics and physics, and after receiving his diploma, he was detained twice by the regime's security forces for protesting against the violation of citizens' rights in Iran.

 

In 1999, he immigrated to England. He then studied, worked, and became active in civil engineering, but his concerns about human rights violations in Iran never led him to stop his human rights activities.

 

Vahid Beheshti's political and social activism began with his protest against regime-affiliated non-profit organizations in England when he first publicly participated in a gathering in front of the London Islamic Center (Nasser Makarem Shirazi's office).

 

With the start of the Green Movement in 2009, Vahid Beheshti, by participating in protests by Iranian expatriates, especially weekly gatherings in front of the Islamic Republic's embassy in London, the capital of England, became the flag-bearer of the fight and protest against the regime's oppressive policies towards his compatriots in Iran. 

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Using protest art, street performances, and performances, he portrayed the crimes of the mullah regime to English citizens and tourists every week in one of the main squares of London (Trafalgar Square). Many videos of him are available on the YouTube social network, showing him leading the protest slogans of Iranian protesters residing in England with drums and musical instruments. 

 

In the years after the Green Movement, Vahid Beheshti produced short videos of himself to spread news from inside Iran on social media read the statements of domestic fighters, and considered cyberspace to be a means of making the voices of Iranian fighters heard by the world.

 

After a decade of living in England, this media activist, by attending human rights meetings at the United Nations, which were organized by Dr. Hassan Nayeb Hashem at the UN headquarters in Geneva, became the voice of the ethnic, religious, and ideological diversities whose rights were violated or suppressed in Iran. 

 

Vahid Beheshti is a member of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights, an international human rights organization. 

 

Vahid Beheshti has been professionally engaged in media and human rights activities for nearly 15 years. He is the director of the Dorr TV global Telegram channel, an internet television that, after Amad News - managed by Rouhollah Zema - is one of the most popular Persian-language Telegram channels outside the country with over 715,000 members.

 

Vahid Beheshti has repeatedly defended the rights of the Iranian people by appearing on Persian-language radio and television programs outside the country, such as BBC Persian, Iran International, Iran Farda, Global Kalemeh Network, and Andisheh TV.

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With the start of his human rights and media activities, he learned the practical and theoretical foundations of rights from Dr. Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh Islamologist, an Islamic scholar and educator of mysticism and Sufism and one of the prominent figures of the Gonabadi Nematollahi Sultanali Shahi order.

 

He is one of the signatories of statements by political, social, and human rights activists against the regime's repressive policies. In many of these statements, the name Vahid Behshti is mentioned as a human rights activist and media activist.

 

Vahid Beheshti is one of the first pioneers in establishing communication with political prisoners and human rights activists inside the country. He is one of the rarest journalists who tried to make the voices of the people inside Iran heard by the world. Among the activists that Vahid Beheshti has interviewed who are residents of Iran are figures such as* Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist

 

•  Dr. Seyed Mohammad Seyfzadeh, a lawyer and one of the founders of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, a political prisoner and human rights activist

• The late Dr. Mohammad Maleki, a prominent human rights defender. The father of Mohammad Mokhtari, one of the victims of the Green Movement 

•  Hashem Khastar, an agricultural engineer, retired teacher, member of the board of directors of the Mashhad Teachers' Association and an Iranian civil activist

•  Ayatollah Masoumi Tehrani, a Tehran-based critical cleric.

• Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Fazel Meybodi is a professor in the Qom Seminary and a member of the Assembly of Researchers and Professors of the Qom Seminary.

• Hojatoleslam Seyed Mohammadali Ayazi, a professor at the Qom Seminary

• Hojatoleslam Ahmad Montazeri, son of Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, a revered Shi'a leader.

• Mother of Saeed Zinali, a student who disappeared after the attack on the dormitory complex at the University of Tehran,

• Mohammad Nourizad, a filmmaker and media activist

• Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, a political activist and co-founder of the Servants of Construction,

• Heshmatollah Tabarzadi is the Secretary-General of the Democratic Front of Iran,

• Dr. Hassan Nayeb Hashem, a human rights activist and official of the Swedish Association,

• Simin Fahandej  the representative of the Baha'i community of Iran at the United Nations

• Dr. Kourosh Za'im, a member of the Central Council of the National Front of Iran

• Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb, a political activist

• Mostafa Badkoubeh.

• Fariborz Raisdana, a member of the Iranian Writers' Association.

• Eisa Saharkhiz, a journalist and member of the Iranian Journalists' Association.

• Abolfazl Ghadiani, a political and civil activist, and others were named.

• Vahid Beheshti, in close collaboration with Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, provided him with reports and documentation of the systematic and flagrant repression of human rights by the regime in Iran. 

 

Vahid Beheshti repeatedly spoke about the oppression of dervishes inside the country, especially Dr. Noorali Tabandeh, also known as Majzoub Ali Shah, at human rights meetings or in interviews with Persian-language media abroad.

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Alongside the crackdown on Gonabadi Dervishes following Dr. Noorali Tabandeh's arrest on February 19, 2018, and the subsequent house arrest of Dr. Tabandeh and the media blackout imposed on the Dervishes vahid Behshti, through his appearances on numerous television programs, brought the voice of the oppressed and defenseless dervishes to the world. Vahid Beheshti, in collaboration with Rouhollah Zam, exposed the warrant for Dr. Nooralizadeh Tabandeh's arrest, preventing history from being distorted as the Iranian regime had intended.

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Following the house arrest of Dr. Noorali Tabandeh and the detention of a large number of his devoted followers, the repressive apparatus worked tirelessly to execute Mohammad Salas a dervish, based on a pre-designed scenario.

Vahid Beheshti, in an interview with Persian-language foreign media outlets, described the government's execution of Mohammad Salas as a disgrace to the entire history of the country's judicial system.  He participated in a press conference organized by the World Human Rights Watch in the European Union, where he detailed the completely fabricated charges against Mohammad Salas, the dervish sentenced to death.   His actions led to the creation of a support campaign by a large number of European parliamentarians to end Dr. Noorali Tabandeh's house arrest and stop the execution of Mohammad Salas. 

 

Through Beheshti's efforts, human rights lawyer Zainab Taheri agreed to take on the case of Mohammad Salas, who had previously been denied the right to an attorney. Vahid Beheshti has been repeatedly threatened with physical elimination (state-sponsored assassination abroad) by Iranian security agencies. Vahid Behshti, in defense of the rights of dervishes and especially Dr. Noorali Tabandeh, never allowed the government's narrative of the attack on dervishes in Golestan  

the seventh to gain a foothold in the public mind through his talks and interviews.

 

Through in-depth interviews and reports on the Dur TV media platform, Vahid Behshti exposed the government's killings of Behnam Mahjoubi and Mohammad Pour Yousefi (Hajji), two followers of Dr. Noorali Tabandeh who were tortured and murdered.

In the wake of the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in Iran, he worked around the clock to prepare and send reports on the prevailing conditions in the country to compatriots both within and outside Iran. Media outlets such as Iran International TV (with Sima Sabet), Kayhan London, Manoto TV, Omid Am, and the Global Kalame network have supported Vahid Beheshti's actions and have become his voice around the clock. Khabar Online London also covers news related to Vahid Behshti's sit-in and hunger strike daily.

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In response to his hunger strike, prominent figures such as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, the director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, Alireza Akhondi, an Iranian-born member of the Swedish Parliament, and several other Iranian and foreign personalities have visited him and expressed their support for his action.

 

Media outlets such as Iran International TV Cheshmandaz with Sima Sabet, Kayhan London, Manoto TV, Omid AM, and Global Kalam have been broadcasting around-the-clock coverage of Vahid Beheshti's actions, amplifying his voice. Khabar Online London also provides daily coverage of Vahid Beheshti's hunger strike and protest. Vahid Beheshti pioneered closeness and unity among ethnic and religious minorities. Regardless of differences in beliefs and religious convictions, he has always advocated for peace, harmony, and reconciliation. He considers Iran to be a cultural mosaic of ethnic and religious diversity.

 

For years, political activist and human rights defender Vahid Behshti has been tirelessly warning about the dangers of Islamism, extremism, and fascism. These threats not only endanger the people of Iran but also put the free world, which adheres to human values, at risk.

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Over the years, Mr Beheshti has clearly articulated these threats in numerous meetings with politicians in the European Parliament and the British Parliament. He has repeatedly warned about the spread of Islamism, extremism, and religious fascism, which, under the guise of Islam, brainwash young people in so-called Islamic centers and other institutions affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran in Western societies. These young people are turned into sleeper cells that the Islamic Republic can activate at will against Western values and democracy.

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In all his interviews, Mr. Beheshti has cried out the grave danger that the Islamic Republic poses an existential threat to the modern world today and its human values, as the ultimate goal of the Islamic Republic is to transform the modern world into an Islamic caliphate - this is what they consider their divine mission.

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He believes that there are common interests in freeing oneself from this existential threat and that Western societies, instead of appeasing the Islamic Republic, must stand up to these destructive currents with vigilance and determination.

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