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Rudi Bakhtiar
Rudi Bakhtiar (born June 21, 1966 in Fresno, California) (born Rudabeh Bakhtiar, in Persian:رودابه بختیار) is a contributor to Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN.
Although born in California, Bakhtiar was raised in Iran until the revolution when her family moved to the United States. She attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a B.S. in science.
Bakhtiar joined CNN in 1996. She was on the air live on CNN Headline News on September 11, 2001 when the terrorist attacks of that day began.
In 2002, Bakhtiar received the Iranian American Republican Council Achievement Award.
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