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Teheran

American  
[te-ran, -rahn, te-huh-, tay-uh-, te-hrahn] / tɛˈræn, -ˈrɑn, ˌtɛ hə-, ˌteɪ ə-, tɛˈhrɑn /
Or Tehran

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943.


Teheran Cultural  
  1. Capital of Iran and the largest city in the country; located in northern Iran.


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Site of the Teheran Conference (1943), at which United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met and agreed on Allied war plans and postwar cooperation in the United Nations.

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The UN nuclear agency reaffirmed in a confidential report seen by AFP on Thursday that a lack of access to Iran's nuclear material posed a "proliferation concern" and called on Teheran to act "constructively".

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

He claims that what he saw in Teheran with his own eyes indicates that closer to 150 people died in Tehran alone.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025

The man who read the invitation to the shah over Teheran radio said:

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Mr Mossaheb - who is understood to be in his 70s - was arrested in in Teheran in 2019, and sentenced for what Amnesty International has called "vague national security offences".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023

The post rider from Teheran to Bushire goes nearly seven hundred miles before he can take a solid sleep.—S.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

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