Morad Tahbaz

Morad Tahbaz is an environmentalist and a citizen of the United States, United Kingdom, and Iran. Tahbaz’s passion for wildlife and nature began in his youth. He co-founded the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), a wildlife-conservation organization that regularly gave to international conservation groups. Tahbaz and eight of his PWHF colleagues were arrested in January 2018. They had been using camera traps to monitor endangered species, including the Persian leopard and Asiatic cheetah. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the environmentalists were committing espionage by photographing Iranian military installations.