Our New Iran Correspondent

The Middle East has undergone seismic change over the past two years, and at every turn, our journalists have risen to the occasion. As the region enters another critical chapter, we are strengthening our ranks with a big hire: Yeganeh Torbati, whose work at The Washington Post we have long admired, is our new Iran correspondent.

Yeganeh will jump right into a story in full flight, joining a formidable team delivering insightful, urgent coverage of the war from on the ground, across the Middle East. She bolsters a top-notch crew focused on Iran for The Times, led by Erika Solomon, our bureau chief for Iran and Iraq, and Farnaz Fassihi, our U.N. bureau chief and resident authority on the Iran beat.

A fluent Persian speaker, Yeganeh was most recently the Iran and Turkey correspondent for The Washington Post. In that role, she helped document a massacre of protesters in the Iranian city of Rasht, and revealed new details of how the Revolutionary Guards exert control over Iran's economy. Her coverage of the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June included a memorable profile of an Iranian civilian killed in one of the first strikes. She is also the co-author of "Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran," which will be published in June.

Before moving overseas, Yeganeh was on The Post's business investigative team, where she helped report an award-winning series about America's assisted living industry and exposed serious conflicts of interest and shortcuts in the development of Iran's Covid vaccine . She was also a reporter for ProPublica, where she revealed how former Vice President Mike Pence's office rerouted foreign aid to favored Christian groups. With a colleague, she also broke the news of a $3 million federal contract for substandard respirator masks awarded to a former top White House aide.

Earlier in her career, Yeganeh worked at Reuters, where she covered Iran, national security and immigration. She was a key contributor to the award-winning series on a historic U.S.-Iran prisoner swap and the $95 billion business empire of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Her 2018 story about a library on the U.S.-Canadian border playing host to reunions of families separated by the Trump administration's travel ban was adapted into a segment for "This American Life."

Please welcome Yeganeh to the team.

- Phil, Adrienne and Yara