In 2007, Fox News terminated its contract with Bakhtiar after she made a complaint of alleged sexual harassment against then Fox Washington Bureau Chief, Brian Wilson. In 2008, Bakhtiar switched careers to become the first director of public relations for the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, an organization dedicated to building an inclusive and representative voice in the public and political arena for Iranian Americans. There she produced minidocumentaries called "Profiles of Iranian Americans" which focused on the lives of successful Iranian Americans. She also created and produced the organization's signature star-studded community event "Passing the Torch of Success," before being pushed out of the organization owing to her strong stance on Iran's human rights violations. In May 2011, Bakhtiar testified before the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Iran's human rights crisis, claiming under the leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei "Iran has become one of the worst violators of human rights in the world...egregiously violating virtually every article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, of which Iran is a member state." Bakhtiar worked on an unfinished documentary on Turkey after the failed 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt and before Michael Flynn was officially named National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump. A Turkish businessman had paid the Flynn Intel Group, a lobbying group in the United States, more than for the making of the film but he was adamant no one knew who they were. Bakhtiar complained she was not being given the opportunity to show a balanced view of the events and said the documentary was going to destroy Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blamed for the coup attempt and would like to see extradited to Turkey from the U.S. In June 2017, Bakhtiar said she had not been contacted by people investigating Mr. Flynn, but by November 2017, it was reported that FBI agents investigating Flynn had contacted Bakhtiar. Personal life Bakhtiar is a fan of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers sports teams. In 2009, she served as an official festival judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles. Recognition In 2002, Bakhtiar received the Iranian American Republican Council Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding achievements, excellence, and accomplishments within the Iranian American community. According to Lycos, she was ninth ranked in the top 20 TV news personalities with the most searches from January