Ahmad Behzad (Dari: احمد بهزاد) is an ethnic Hazara politician and former representative of the people of Herat province in the fifteenth and sixteenth parliamentary sessions of the Afghanistan Parliament.
[2][3] Ahmad Behzad was forced to leave Afghanistan and moved to Iran during the war with the Talibans.
[4] Ahmad Behzad is pro US intervention in Afghanistan, and fears a civil war or the return of the Talibans if the US armed forces left the country.
[5] He however condemned the photos taken by US soldiers with dead Afghan bodies on the war field.
[6] He is proactive in promoting women's rights and standing up against conservative religious parties.