1980 Pulitzer photo winner finally gets his prize

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"NEW YORK When the Pulitzer Prizes are handed out Monday at the annual awards

luncheon, none of the recipients will likely receive more accolades than

Jahangir Razmi. Although he did not expose corruption in business, housing

authority abuse or ongoing damage to the world's oceans -- as some of his fellow

winners did -- his journalistic service is equally notable, as is his patience.

That's because Razmi, now 58, has waited 27 years for his prize, despite winning

it in 1980. His dramatic photo of an Iranian firing squad executing 11 men in

1979, which won the Spot News award for United Press International at the time,

has always been credited simply to "anonymous."

But the impact and drama of the photo, taken in the midst of the post-Shah

regime change that eventually resulted in the 444-day hostage ordeal at the U.S.

Embassy in Tehran, was never lessened. Razmi, who lives in Tehran, had kept his

photo credit secret, fearing that disclosure at the time, or even in the decades

that followed, could mean the end of his life."

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