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the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern Iran

Tehran claims the nuclear scientist was abducted by the CIA.

Tehran = the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern Iran

...and now they were touring Tehran, and soon they would be touring all the way to Paris.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato

Tehran = the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern Iran

We stepped off the airplane into the overwhelming, oppressive summer heat of Tehran...
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

Tehran = the capital and largest city of Iran

Belfast, Montevideo, Tangier, Marseille, Lima, Tehran.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
In the early 1980s, when I taught at the University of Tehran, I, like many others, was expelled.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Hasina's family had fled in May, off to Tehran.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
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.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
But when Fredi turned eight, his parents announced that they were returning to Tehran.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
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.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
In 1970, Baba took a break from the construction of the orphanage and flew to Tehran for a month to watch the World Cup games on television, since at the time Afghanistan didn't have TVs yet.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
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.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
I sent a brief note to Hamid, owner of the menswear store in Tehran, whose telephone was my point of contact with Helen, Amahl, and others.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
From the time we had left the safe house in Tehran, we had eaten only bread and sunflower seeds washed down with tea.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Soon a woman entered the barn, dressed in full Kurdish garb, so different from the colorless clothes of the women of Tehran.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
It was a smaller city than Tehran, and cleaner and fresher.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Soon everyone returned to the car, and once again we were speeding farther away from Tehran, closer to the border.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Like Tehran on a smaller scale, Tabriz was a contrast of modern, high-rise architecture and rotting hovels.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
I remembered how much I admired Jane Fonda's nose when I was in fourth grade in Tehran, and how much I hated my own.
Dumas Firoozeh -- Funny in Farsi
That afternoon I left the relative safety of Amahl's apartment for the icy and dangerous streets of Tehran.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Even in the anonymity of the chad or I felt naked on the streets of Tehran as I walked back to the apartment.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

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