Jim Bakhtiar

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{{Short description|Iranian gridiron football player (1934–2022)}}

{{Infobox college football player

|name = James Jim Bakhtiar

|image =

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|currentposition = Fullback, Placekicker

|birth_date = {{birth date|1934|01|08}}

|birth_place = Tehran, Iran

|death_date = {{death date and age|2022|01|09|1934|01|08}}

|death_place = Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.

|currentnumber = 34

|school = Virginia Cavaliers

|pastschools = * Virginia (1955–1957)

|highschool =

|class = Graduate

|highlights =

• First-team All-American (1957)
• 2× First-team All-ACC (1956, 1957)
• Second-team All-ACC (1955)
• Virginia Cavaliers Jersey No. 34 retired

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Jamshid Abol Hassen Bakhtiar (January 8, 1934 – January 9, 2022) was an American football player.

Bakhtiar was born in Tehran, Iran, on January 8, 1934, and emigrated to the United States as a boy.{{Cite news |title=Beyond All-American: A half-century after his playing days, Bakhtiar honored again |work=University of Virginia Magazine |url=http://uvamagazine.org/articles/beyond_all-american}}{{Cite news |last=Melinda Waldrop |date=September 14, 2007 |title=Long Run Of 'Good Fortune' |work=Daily Press |url=https://www.dailypress.com/2007/09/14/long-run-of-good-fortune/}} He attended the University of Virginia where he played college football at the fullback and placekicker positions for the Virginia Cavaliers football team from 1955 to 1957. In September 1956, he set an Atlantic Coast Conference single-game record with 210 rushing yards against VMI.{{Cite news |date=September 23, 1956 |title=Bakhtiar Runs Wild in 18-0 Virginia Win |page=2C |work=Star-News, Wilmington, N.C.}} He was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as a first-team back on its 1957 College Football All-America Team.{{Cite web |editor-last=Ted Gangi |title=FWAA All-America Since 1944: The All-Time Team |url=http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304073432/http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf |url-status=dead }} He later played in the Canadian Football League with the Calgary Stampeders in 1958 before enrolling in medical school at the University of Virginia.

He graduated with a medical degree with an emphasis in psychiatry in 1963. He returned to Iran where he established the country's first modern psychiatric unit.{{Cite web |date=August 18, 2009 |title=On the outside, looking in at a country in turmoil |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/on-the-outside-looking-in-at-a-country-in-turmoil-1.588443 |access-date=November 23, 2020 |website=The National |language=en}} Following the Iranian Revolution, he fled to Turkey with his family and returned to the United States.{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2009 |title=ESPN All-America Team 2006 - FWAA Alumni Award winner Jamshid "Jim" Bakhtiar, MD |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5vlle8b9I |access-date=July 25, 2016 |website=YouTube}}

Bakhtiar's sister was Laleh, a scholar, author, translator, and clinical psychologist. His nieces are NPR producer, journalist, and author Davar Ardalan and novelist Lailee Bakhtiar McNair; his nephew is former tennis player Fred McNair.{{Cite news |last=Theodoulou |first=Michael |date=June 6, 2008 |title=US-Iran disputes cannot move Helen's mountain |page=15 |work=The National}}{{Cite book |last=Ardalan |first=Iran Davar |title=My Name Is Iran: A Memoir |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |year=2010 |isbn=9781429923736 |pages=58, 235, 288}}

He died on January 9, 2022, one day after his 88th birthday.{{Cite web |date=January 12, 2022 |title=Former UVA All-American Jim Bakhtiar Passes Away |url=https://virginiasports.com/news/2022/01/12/former-uva-all-american-jim-bakhtiar-passes-away/}}