City of Iran

Usage examples of tehran.

Communications between Tehran, Beijing, Hong Kong, Toulouse, and Washington were almost blocking the airwaves at the height of the dispute.

Sunni elites, and Tehran periodically reminds the world that it believes Bahrain should again be a part of Iran, as it was at the height of the Persian Empire.

Baghdad, believing that they will be more favorably inclined toward their coreligionists in Tehran than the Sunnis have been over the last seventy years.

If we want to win the hearts and minds of people in Caracas, Jakarta, Nairobi, or Tehran, dispersing ballot boxes will not be enough.

Some have ascribed to him a Khurasanian ancestry, saying that his antecedents came from Tus in Khurasan, but he himself belonged to the city of Rayy, whose site is close to modern Tehran.

Thus, before the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq had little information regarding developments in Tehran, the mood of the country, or the operational status of the armed forces and instead relied on the misinformation of former Iranian generals who had fled the Islamic Revolution and desperately wanted Iraq to attack to try to restore them to power.

Embassy in Tehran, taking fifty-two American diplomats and Marine guards hostage and tossing the United States into a 444-day nightmare of paralysis and frustration.

Tehran hard currency to hinder its efforts to rearm and support terrorism.

Last September, for example, Tehran covertly supported a peaceful uprising against a communist power grab in Tajikistan, allegedly paying demonstrators 100 rubles a day to lead Moslem prayers and demand the resignation of the Tajik communist leadership.

After Iran seized the al-Faw peninsula in 1986 and Iraq's massive counterattacks failed, Saddam kicked off a new campaign against Iranian shipping in the Gulf, removed the last political constraints on his generals, allowed the expansion and rebuilding of the Republican Guard as an elite offensive force, and ordered the development of longer-range missiles and WMD warheads so that he could strike Tehran and Iran's other major cities to try to force an end to the war.

Shotguns could be bought in Tehran, but the only kind of ammunition allowed by the Shah was birdshot.

In addition, after years of boycotting the UN Security Council, Tehran expressed an interest in becoming a member.

GIR forces defending the city, already faced with significant internal upheaval within Tehran, surrendered unconditionally, were taken into custody and allied forces entered the city by the middle of the month with little opposition.

Regarding the destruction of the germ-warfare lab outside Tehran, the only journalists who ever got in there were those two Russians that their embassy drafted for the purpose.

Or were they some kind of special action group working with the knowledge and approval of the mullahs in Tehran?