Mashhad
Americannoun
noun
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On Saturday, Iranian state television announced the slain leader will be buried on July 9 in his hometown of Mashhad, after the service was postponed due to the war.
From Barron's • Jun. 13, 2026
Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of his father, was born in 1969, in the religious city of Mashhad, in the family’s ancestral home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Born on September 8, 1969 in the holy city of Mashhad in eastern Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei is the only one of the late supreme leader's six children to hold a public position.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
Born on 8 September 1969 in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Mojtaba is the second of Khamenei's six children.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
Mamani had gotten married at fifteen, became a widow at fifty-three, and spent the rest of her life on her own in an apartment in Mashhad, a city on the far eastern side of Iran.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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