TEHERAN Definition & Meaning

Teheran

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[ te-ran, -rahn, te-huh-, tey-uh-; Persian te-hrahn ]

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

Teheran

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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She is now reportedly being held in solitary confinement in Teheran's Evin prison.

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In those days, the East began in Teheran,” Picco wrote in his 1999 biography, “Man without a Gun: One Diplomat’s Secret Struggle to Free the Hostages, Fight Terrorism, and End a War.”

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According to the US, Moscow and Teheran now have a fully-fledged defence partnership.

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Bahrain accuses Shi'ite Iran of fomenting unrest, charges Teheran denies.

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Russia's military cooperation with Iran will not succumb to geopolitical pressure, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, following a report that Washington has asked Teheran to stop selling drones to Moscow.

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