Tehran

alternative Tehrân · alternative dated Teheran

1. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

   Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval.

   2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014

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   AFP, one of the few international news outlets with a Tehran bureau, said this week it has been unable to visit the scene of the strike on a school in the southern town of Minab, where Iranian authorities say more than 150 people, many of them children, were killed by a US Tomahawk missile.

   2026 March 12, Peter Beaumont, “British tourist among 20 charged in Dubai over videos of Iranian missile strikes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2026

2. A county of Iran, around the city.
3. Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.
4. by ellipsisThe Tehran Conference (1943).
5. metonymicallyThe government of Iran.

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   I want to add one more thing to that: one thing that you will read in all the reporting of the war; all the decision making; all the ways this has turned into a mess for the administration — one thing you’ll see is that they just did not expect this level of resistance from Tehran; they did not expect this level of sophistication from Tehran — they just didn’t expect it at all.

   2026 May 4, jamelle-bouie, “racism makes you stupid”, in YouTube