Yeganeh Torbati
Yeganeh Torbati is an award-winning reporter with 15 years of experience covering Iran, U.S. 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 Iran’s supreme leader, 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.
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The Islamic Republic’s Broken Promises of Economic Justice
Iran’s Islamic republic was built on a pledge to uplift the poor and uproot inequality. Instead, decades of sanctions, ideological priorities and the Revolutionary Guard’s economic dominance have produced mass impoverishment and recurring unrest.