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Mashhad

American  
[mash-had] / mæʃˈhæd /

noun

  1. Persian name of Meshed.


Mashhad British  
/ mæʃˈhæd /

noun

  1. a city in NE Iran: an important holy city of Shi'ite Muslims; carpet manufacturing. Pop: 2 147 000 (2005 est)

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Mojtaba Khamenei—his given name is the Arabic word for “chosen”—was born in 1969 in the religious hub of Mashhad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 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 8 September 1969 in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Mojtaba is the second of Khamenei's six children.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Khamenei left Mashhad in 1957 to attend seminary in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 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