Obelit Yadgar (born 1945), aka Obie Yadgar, is an

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radio personality from

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. Yadgar was born in

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Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. Raised in

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, he moved to the United States in 1957. He was drafted into the US Army's 4th Infantry Division, serving as a combat correspondent in

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in 1967 and 1968. Yadgar spent eight years at radio station WFMR in

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during the 1970s, and another 10 years at the station during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was named "Best Morning Announcer" by ''

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''. In 1996 he moved to the

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radio station WNIB. In 2002 he moved back to WFMR but was let go during an early-2004 move by the station to satellite-delivered programming. He contributes to the Assyrian magazine '' Zinda'', and has made appearances on

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