Qom
or Qum
[koo m]
- a city in NW Iran, SW of Teheran, on the Qom river.
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Influential clerics from the holy city of Qom opposed and blocked the move and Ahmadinejad gave in.
I know that the Green Wave has established contacts with members of the clergy in Qom and Teheran.
He specifically said the power lines from Qom to the Shahid Ali Mohammadi complex at Fordow “were cut using explosives.”
In 2009, the Obama administration exposed such a facility carved into a mountain outside of the Shiite holy city of Qom.
The leader of Al Wefaq, Ali Salman, studied in the Iranian seminaries of Qom in the 1980s.
Qom
Qum or Kum
- a city in NW central Iran: a place of pilgrimage for Shiite Muslims. Pop: 1 045 000 (2005 est)
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