Reza Hosseini ( fa, رضا حسینی‎; 8 May 1960 – 19 August 2003) was a relief worker who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in

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. His colleagues valued him for his 'joie de vivre' and great operational skill: “He had an air of confidence that there were no problems that couldn’t be overcome. And that confidence was contagious,” one colleague wrote. Everyone who ever met him remembers his smile, which would light up the room. After moving out of the private sector, he worked for the

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. He became the Chief of Operations at the

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before taking up his post as humanitarian affairs officer for the

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in Iraq. He was born in

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, Iran, and earned a university degree in Business Administration from the

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. He spoke

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, Indonesian and

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. His wife's name is Zari shakeri born on 16 July 1971 And he had 2 children : 1. a son named Yazdan, He was born on 16 November 1995. 2. a girl named Yasaman, She was born on 14 June 1998.

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