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Teheran

American  
[te-ran, -rahn, te-huh-, tey-uh-, te-hrahn] / tɛˈræn, -ˈrɑn, ˌtɛ hə-, ˌteɪ ə-, tɛˈhrɑn /
Or Tehran

noun

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


Teheran Cultural  
  1. 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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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

“I wanted to go there and organize a new government and march on Teheran and Mossadegh,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

The state news agency said Raisi will leave Teheran on May 11.

From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2023

Mr Mossaheb - who is understood to be in his 70s - was arrested in in Teheran in 2019, and sentenced for what Amnesty International has called "vague national security offences".

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

Gardane, whose family was well known in the Levant, had a long and dangerous journey overland, but was cordially received at Teheran in December 1807.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

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