Mashhad
Americannoun
noun
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He was born in 1961 in Torghabeh, near Mashhad, a city of religious importance in Iran’s northeast and the hometown of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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
Born on April 19, 1939, in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, Khamenei was the second of eight children to Sayyed Javad Khamenei, a jurist, and Khadijeh Mirdamadi.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 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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