Radio host Behruz Razavi to Honor with lifetime achievement award
Iran Theater- The Veteran Artists Institute at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance honored Behruz Razavi, the prominent host of art and cultural programs on radio, with a lifetime achievement award during a ceremony held at the Shohadaye Radio Building in Tehran on Sunday
The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) deputy director Hamid Shahabadi, Veteran Artists Institute director Mohammad Tabatabai, and a number of officials from Radio Iran and Radio Farhang attended the ceremony.
In his brief speech, Shahabadi called paying tribute to one of its respected figures like Razavi a great honor for the radio.
“If we look at the 80-year-old presence of radio in our country, there are only a few who have had this great honor and radio is proud to have produced such a figure as Razavi.
“We have this honor today to be beside the precious figures who have spent their lives, knowledge and wisdom on Iranian culture and have helped develop radio,” he added.
“If the radio has played a role in the formation of the lifestyle of people, helped to raise their knowledge, acted as a medium to entertain and increased skills of the people, it is only because of the knowledge of prominent figures like Behruz Razavi,” he added.
“We hereby express our thanks to him for all his time spent over all these years, and we hope we will have the honor to make use of the presence of masters like Razavi,” he said.