Hamed Ghashghavi

Hamed Ghashghavi (Persian: حامد قشقاوی ‎) (born April 23, 1989 in Tehran) is simultaneously a quadrilingual researcher on North American and European Studies, an international conference organizer and a columnist. Ghashghavi is in touch with several western figures including politicians, and people with military and intelligence backgrounds, along with media analysts, artists and writers, Ghashghavi, therefore for the very first time, makes it possible for various Iranian news agencies, TV shows and documentary filmmakers to benefit from the comments of these European and North American independent thinkers.

Since he returned to Iran in 2012, on one hand he worked on a variety of TV shows including Nader Talebzadeh's famous Asr (Time) and Raz (Secret) and one the other hand with the help of a wide range of university associations and research institutions, in Tehran and from several provinces, Ghashghavi aided many students, professors, scholars and elites in hearing the analyses of these western personalities, either online or by physically bringing them to these broadcasts. Therefore dozens of American voices and hundreds of Iranian students witness that the accusations of United States Department of the Treasury are based on false charges as part of Washington's maximum pressure campaign against Iran.

The 2013 edition of the International Conference on Hollywoodism included some 130 foreigners brought to Tehran by the government for four days of sessions with 1,000 expected attendees. He was the Secretary on International Affairs of the conference.

On 13 Feb. 2019 as New Horizon Organization's Secretary for International Affairs and based on the platform he prepared for western elites, experts and critics to talk in Iranian universities on international and regional matters including 911, Hamed Ghashghavi sanctioned by United States Department of the Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, pursuant to Executive Order 13224. This makes him Iran's youngest sanctioned person at the age of 29.