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
Relations were severed a year later after protesters attacked Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran and consulate in the northwestern city of Mashhad, following Riyadh's execution of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
From Barron's • May 25, 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
Ali Khamenei was born in the city of Mashhad, in north-eastern Iran, in 1939.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 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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