Yeganeh Torbati

Yeganeh Torbati is an award-winning reporter at the New York Times with fifteen years of experience covering Iran, US national security, business and immigration. She has worked at the Washington Post, ProPublica, Reuters and the Baltimore Sun. She was part of a Reuters team that uncovered the financial empire controlled by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2013. The series received numerous awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and the European Press Prize. Torbati was born in Oklahoma to Iranian immigrants.