Sargon Dadesho

Wilfred Bet-Alkhas, editor and publisher of the online newsletter Zinda Magazine, selected Dadesho as the "Assyrian Person of the Year" for 2004, saying that Dadesho was "celebrated as both an Assyrian nationalist and a nemesis of Assyrian political progress".

The source of revenue for Bet-Nahrain, Inc. which funds Dadesho's projects is said to be member donations, membership fees, and bingo games. According to an IRS report in 2003, Bet-Nahrain, Inc.'s revenues totaled slightly over $325,000 and the total expenses over $407,000. Yet the cost of running the Assyrian satellite program and all other media outlets connected with Sargon Dadesho alone are well over $50,000 a month.

In 1995, Dadesho won a $1.5 million settlement against Iraq for emotional distress suffered after an assassination attempt which was foiled by the FBI. Iraq appealed the decision, but a federal appeals court later affirmed the judgment. In April 2003, he was awarded the money after a failed assassination attempt by a hired Iraqi assassin ten years previously. The money came from the confiscated assets of the Iraqi government, one of a number of victims to finally collect judgments from lawsuits filed after the first Gulf War. Dadesho remains the most vocal devotee of the "Assyrian only" camp, a position he has uncompromisingly held since the explosion of the Chaldean identity on the scene of Assyrian politics during the 1990 US Census.

In the early 1970s, Dadesho was a vocal proponent for the Assyrian Universal Alliance. His pursuit of a more militant approach to finding solutions to Assyrian struggle in Iraq led him to leave the AUA and, with the help of a few former AUA members, form the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party in California.

Sargon Dadesho (Syriac: ܣܪܓܘܢ ܕܕܝܫܘܥ, Arabic: سركون داديشو; born September 18, 1948 in Habbaniyah, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American author, broadcaster, activist, and nationalist leader of Assyrian descent. Dadesho is currently the head of various Assyrian organizations and political parties.