# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farzad-bazoft
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:09:02.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farzad-bazoft"
name: "Farzad Bazoft"
slug: "farzad-bazoft"
description: "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."
tagline: "Iranian-born journalist & double spy"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/Farzad_Bazoft.webp/330px-Farzad_Bazoft.webp.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1958-05-22"
deathDate: "1990-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.68
  momentum:             3.536585365853658
  historical:           8.173869333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Farzad Bazoft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرزاد بازوفت"
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    title: "فرزاد بازفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فەرزاد بازۆفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft"
    title: "Farzad Bazoft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft"
    title: "Farzad Bazoft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرزاد بازفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft"
    title: "Farzad Bazoft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft"
    title: "Farzad Bazoft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3067046"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump