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  • Once, I was even a guest lecturer in Tehran, 1971 that was.†  (source)
    Tehran = capital and largest city of Iran
  • In first-grade geography, I had to learn the shape of Iran and the location of its capital, Tehran.†  (source)
  • Images of the destroyed village in China, and the storming of the US embassy in Taiyuan, had been replaced by images of burning American flags in Tehran.†  (source)
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  • In Iran, brothels are strictly banned, and the mayor of Tehran was a law-and-order hard-liner until, according to Iranian news accounts, he was arrested in a police raid on a brothel where he was in the company of six naked prostitutes.†  (source)
    Tehran = capital and largest city of Iran
  • On November 4, 1979, just after the evening news announced that five hundred militants had seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Janice and Larry sat down at their dinner table to discuss their own crisis: Larry's work as an electrician had dried up—he'd collected his final paycheck—and their savings would last little more than a month.†  (source)
  • The Navy's counter-terrorism unit was born in the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw, the failed 1980 mission ordered by President Jimmy Carter to rescue fifty-two Americans held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran.†  (source)
  • And then, in May 1933 he took off in his tiny airplane and set a course for Everest by way of Cairo, Tehran, and India.†  (source)
  • The following evening they board a Pan Am flight to London, where after a five-hour layover they will board a second flight to Calcutta, via Tehran and Bombay.†  (source)
  • The reports of his death had been part of an elaborate operation to deceive his enemies in Moscow and Tehran.†  (source)
  • In the early 1980s, when I taught at the University of Tehran, I, like many others, was expelled.†  (source)
  • But when Fredi turned eight, his parents announced that they were returning to Tehran.†  (source)
  • Hasina's family had fled in May, off to Tehran.†  (source)
  • We always reached Tehran in the evening and spent the night at relatives' houses.†  (source)
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