Mashhad
Americannoun
noun
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“If Iran gets great, I think the world will get great,” said Narjes Delacai, 66, who left the northern Iranian city of Mashhad decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 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
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
Iranian media reported demonstrations also took place on Sunday at the Iran University of Science and Technology and Khajeh Nasir Toosi University in Tehran, and at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 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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