Mashhad
Americannoun
noun
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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
Mohammad Ghafarian, owner of the Shater Abbass Bakery & Market on Westwood Blvd., said he hasn’t been able to reach his family in Tehran or Mashhad at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Ali Hosseini Khamenei was born on April 19, 1939, in the Shiite holy city of Mashhad, the second of eight children of a Shiite religious scholar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 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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