All 50 Uses of
Tehran
in
Not Without My Daughter
- We stepped off the airplane into the overwhelming, oppressive summer heat of Tehran...
*Tehran = the capital and largest city of Iran
- Moody had told me that Tehran was famed for this impressive tower that stood like a sentinel on the outskirts of the city.†
- As Hossein steered the car off the expressway, I studied the women who scurried along the teeming sidewalks of Tehran.†
- Moody boasted that this was an affluent neighborhood on the northern side of Tehran; his sister's house was just two doors away from the Chinese Embassy. it was screened from the street by a large fence crafted of green iron bars set together closely.†
- And there was the Park Mellatt that featured a Tehran rarity grass.†
- Finally, I told her that I was calling from Tehran.†
- The fact that the youngest "child," Fereshteh, was preparing to start classes at the University of Tehran apparently made no difference.†
- We also wanted to take advantage of Tehran's comparatively low prices to purchase jewelry and carpets for ourselves.†
- Whole villages had been devastated by economic collapse; their residents fled to Tehran in search of food and shelter.†
- Even Ameh Bozorg was a paragon of wisdom and cleanliness next to the people on the streets of Tehran.†
- Had he been born into a lowly family, Moody might have spent his life like Tehran's uncounted indigents, existing in a tiny makeshift hut constructed of scavenged building materials, reduced to begging for odd jobs and handouts.†
- He rarely wrote to his relatives, even to his sister Ameh Bozorg, who had moved from Khorramshahr to Tehran, and this lack of family contact saddened me a bit.†
- Without those vital documents we could not travel outside of Tehran, even if we managed to escape from the house.†
- Quickly she blurted out the telephone number and address of the U.S. Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.†
- After bounding his car through the streets of Tehran for more than a half hour, the driver paused at the Australian Embassy on Park Avenue.†
- My stomach churned when Mahtob and I found ourselves back on the streets of Tehran, with nowhere to go but to a husband and father who had assumed the role of our all-powerful jailer.†
- I thought, the war has come to Tehran.†
- In Tehran that night, as many as fourteen million voices were raised as one.†
- On the first day of classes teachers all over Tehran led the children into the streets for a mass demonstration.†
- Encouraged by his response, I said, "I finally have accepted the idea that we are going to live in Tehran, and I want to get our life started.†
- You have to get me out of this house if we are going to get a new start and be able to make it in Tehran.†
- I knew that if I could convince him, little by little, that I was adjusting to life in Tehran, he would eventually find it too bothersome to accompany me on "women's" errands.†
- These were legitimate excuses in a city as crowded as Tehran.†
- If only I had acted upon my fears earlier, before we had boarded the flight to Tehran.†
- He also taught at the University of Theology in Tehran.†
- Their home in Niavaran, an elegant section of northern Tehran, was modern and spacious, but nearly devoid of furniture.†
- Chilled mornings in the inadequately heated apartment warned that Tehran's winter would be as bitter as its summer was scorching.†
- Helen did not believe so, for she had risked Moody's wrath to warn me of their presence in Tehran; but I was unsure.†
- Her husband had gone to fight in the war against Iraq, so she was staying temporarily with his family in Tehran.†
- If she was staying in Tehran only temporarily one month she had said why was she enrolled in Koran study classes here.†
- I did not want Moody to realize that an American woman could learn to find her way about Tehran.†
- Winter swept down upon Tehran from the nearby mountains.†
- Yes, I could find my way around Tehran, which was a step closer to finding my way out of the city and the country altogether.†
- Tehran took no official note of the day, which meant that it was school as usual for Mahtob.†
- They were willing and grateful students of English and, for my part, I realized that every word of Farsi I learned had the potential of helping me find a way around-and out of Tehran.†
- The car sped off into the bustle of Tehran's traffic.†
- After a few moments of indecision, Moody must have realized that Aga Hakim was right, that this would help acclimate me to life in Tehran.†
- Hormoz assured her that if she was unhappy in Tehran, she and the children could return to America anytime she wished.†
- Once in Tehran, Ellen found herself held hostage just as I was.†
- He knew the outcome of the story, for six years later Ellen was still here in Tehran and obviously committed to life in her husband's country.†
- Rats are a fact of life in Tehran.†
- Through word-of-mouth reports, everyone in Tehran knew that dozens of people-perhaps hundreds-had been killed in the raid.†
- Confusion reigned in downtown Tehran.†
- As Tehran accustomed itself to the reality of war, civil defense authorities issued revised instructions.†
- Three times a day, every day, the call to prayer intrudes upon the lives of everyone in Tehran.†
- No-ruz continued during its second week with what was termed a "holiday" along the shores of the Caspian Sea, which sits due north of Tehran and forms a portion of the Iranian-Russian border.†
- They ringed Tehran on all sides, turning the entire city into a trap.†
- Upon our return to Tehran, Moody learned that he had landed the hospital job.†
- Helen and Mr. Vincop at the embassy had stressed that the real snag in that first scenario was the possibility of having to hide away from Moody, and perhaps the police, while remaining in Tehran.†
- It was essential that we clear the airports in Tehran and Zahidan and reach the smuggling team before there was any official notice of our absence.†
Definition:
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(Tehran) the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern Iran