Teheran
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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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The UN nuclear agency reaffirmed in a confidential report seen by AFP on Thursday that a lack of access to Iran's nuclear material posed a "proliferation concern" and called on Teheran to act "constructively".
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
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
It was a Saturday, and we were very desirous of reaching Teheran that night, otherwise it meant spending Sunday at a village near the city, as we did not like travelling on that day.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith
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