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Teheran

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

Or Tehran

noun

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

Teheran Cultural

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

According to the US, Moscow and Teheran now have a fully-fledged defence partnership.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

Monitors here said a welter of confused shouting accompanied the reading of the first communique from Teheran.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

While in the Caucasus, the Prince visited some of the neighboring parts of Persia, including Teheran and some smaller towns, and he returned to Russia by way of Novgorod.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

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