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Reuters journalists honoured for unveiling ayatollah's wealth

Friday 25 April 2014

Reuters journalists Steve Stecklow (photo), Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati won a US award for business reporting from abroad by a wire service or newspaper for a three-part series on the worth of Iran's supreme leader.

The Malcolm Forbes Award is given by the Overseas Press Club.

The judges were impressed by Reuters’ ability to piece together how Iran’s top religious cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had amassed a financial empire worth $95 billion, rivaling the wealth of the late Shah. Stecklow and his colleagues drew a devastating portrait of how Khamenei had secured a position in nearly every sector of Iran’s economy through a little-known agency called Setad. ■

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