Nilo Tabrizy

New York

Visual Forensics Journalist at The Washington Post

Visual Forensics @washingtonpost | Writing a book on Iran for @PantheonBooks @AtlanticBooks | Prev. @nytimes & @VICENews | یاشاسین تبریز

Articles

Iran port explosion caused by chemicals catching fire, videos show

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Nilo Tabrizy |Meg Kelly |Yeganeh Torbati |Susannah George

Iran port explosion caused by chemicals catching fire, videos show (washingtonpost.com) Iran port explosion caused by chemicals catching fire, videos show By Nilo Tabrizy; Meg Kelly; Yeganeh Torbati; Susannah George 2025050215092700 The explosion on Saturday that killed at least 70 people and injured more than 1,000 others at an Iranian port was caused by a chemical fire that began in a shipping container, according to visual evidence and explosives experts. Surveillance video, first...
Iranian elite grows supportive of nuclear talks as economic fears spike

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Susannah George |Nilo Tabrizy

Iranian elite grows supportive of nuclear talks as economic fears spike (washingtonpost.com) Iranian elite grows supportive of nuclear talks as economic fears spike By Susannah George; Nilo Tabrizy 2025042518342700 DUBAI — Iranian media coverage of nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran has been largely positive, reflecting a growing willingness among the Iranian elite to engage with the United States, with even conservative outlets spinning the negotiations as evidence of their...
More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures

Dec 22, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Dana Hedgpeth |Sari Horwitz |Joyce Lee |Andrew Tran |Nilo Tabrizy |Jahi Chikwendiu

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools. Each figure on this page represents a child who died while they attended a school. Almeda Heavy Hair is one of them.
Revenge attacks in post-Assad Syria fuel fear and mistrust

Dec 18, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Suzan Haidamous |Louisa Loveluck |Nilo Tabrizy |Imogen Piper

Across Syria, the country's rebel leaders are struggling to contain revenge attacks, as vigilantes seize on the chaos of the moment to settle personal scores. AL-HAKEEM, Syria - The woman was clutching her infant, still in the dressing gown and pajamas she had been wearing a day earlier when fighters overran this village in Syria's Latakia province, the heartland of Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority sect. Her scorched home still radiated heat from the fires they had set.
Iranian student arrested in her underwear is latest symbol in fight for rights

Nov 15, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Nilo Tabrizy

Democracy Dies in DarknessA screenshot from a video shows the moments after a student at Tehran's Islamic Azad University shed clothing in an apparent protest against the mandatory hijab. (Mamlekate/Telegram)By Nilo TabrizyNovember 15, 2024 at 1:00 a.m. ESTA young Iranian woman was recorded this month arguing with security forceswhile stripped to her underwear at her university in Tehran.
Toomaj Salehi’s death sentence overturned by Iran’s Supreme Court

Jun 23, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Annabelle Timsit |Nilo Tabrizy

Iran’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence handed down to a rapper who made music that criticized the regime and backed nationwide protests sparked by a woman’s death in the custody of Iran’s morality police, his lawyer said. Toomaj Salehi’s death sentence was “overturned and based on an appeal decision of the 39th branch of the Supreme Court,the case will be referred to [another] branch for consideration,” Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raesian wrote Saturday on X.
Latest Israel-Hamas war news and Gaza updates: ICC seeks arrest of Israeli, Hamas leaders; over 810K have fled Rafah

May 21, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Kelly Kasulis Cho |Adela Suliman |Amy B Wang |Kareem Fahim |Nilo Tabrizy |Susannah George

President Biden said what’s happening in Gaza “is not genocide,” doubling down on the White House’s support of Israel as the International Criminal Court prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and Hamas’s leader on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. About 40 percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced in the past two weeks, according to U.N. estimates —the vast majority, about 812,000, in a mass exodus from Rafah amid evacuation orders from Israel.
What President Ebrahim Raisi’s death means for Iran amid Middle East conflict

May 20, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Nilo Tabrizy |Susannah George

Supporters of Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces light candles during a vigil for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi outside the country’s embassy’s in Baghdad on Monday.
What to know about the Bell 212 helicopter that crashed carrying Iranian President Raisi

May 20, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Ian Duncan |Joyce Lee |Samuel Granados |Nilo Tabrizy |Sammy Westfall

The helicopter that crashed while carrying the Iranian president through mountainous fog was a U.S.-designed Bell 212, according to state media and photographs verified by The Washington Post. The Bell 212 aircraft is a widely used civilian version of the Vietnam-era Huey military helicopter, operated by armed forces and businesses around the globe. The model is a two-blade twin-engine medium helicopter with up to 15 seats that first flew in 1968, according to Skybrary, an aviation database.
As famine looms, Israel’s offensive is destroying Gaza’s agriculture

May 3, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Nilo Tabrizy |Imogen Piper |Miriam Berger

This was theGaza Strip in April 2023. Before the war, farmers grew tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers and more. Olive groves flourished. This is the Gaza Strip in April 2024. Satellite imagery shows how its green agricultural lands have turned brown from north to south.