Jamshid Barzegar (Persian: جمشید برزگر ), born 20 August 1971 in Hamedan, Iran, is an Iranian poet and writer.

Since leaving Iran in 2001, he has worked as a political analyst for Iranian affairs and started collaborating with BBC Persian.

During early 2018 Jamshid Barzegar left his longstanding post at The BBC to take up the role of head of the Deutsche Welle Persian Service.

In addition to authorship, Barzegar was active in the field of criticism in the form literature, In 1998 he was elected as General Secretary of the Iranian Writers Association .

During his career, Barzegar made eight documentaries, and also conducted lengthy interviews with Simin Behbahani,[4] Mahmoud Dowlatabadi,[5] Siavash Kasrai,[6] Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou,[7] Esmail Khoi,[8] Javad Mojabi[9][10] and Shams Langeroodi.