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unusual facts about Bahramabad, Tehran


Eslamshahr

(The old, historic name of Bahramabad is now applied only to a small northern suburbs of Eslamshahr, or the "village of Bahramabad")


1974 Aryamehr Cup

The 1974 Aryamehr Cup was a men's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Imperial Country Club in Tehran in Iran.

1975 Aryamehr Cup

The 1975 Aryamehr Cup was a men's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Imperial Country Club in Tehran in Iran.

1977 Aryamehr Cup

The 1977 Aryamehr Cup was a men's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Tehran in Iran.

Africa Boulevard

The avenue was formerly named after Dr. Samuel Jordan, the founder and the head of the American College of Tehran (later Alborz High School) from the 1910s to 1941.

Ahvaz bombings

Presidential candidate Mostafa Moeen also suggested that those responsible for the Ahvaz attacks were also linked to similar attacks in Tehran and Zahedan.

Ali Akbar Rashad

Having completed all the ternary grades of the seminary, he attended Khârij and the principles of jurisprudence classes of Grand Ayatollahs Vahid Khorasani, Ali Meshkini, Hosein Ali Montazeri (all in Qom), and Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Mojtaba Tehrani (in Tehran) for a total of twenty five years.

Armen Ra

Born in Tehran, Iran, he was raised by his mother, a concert pianist, and his aunt, an opera singer and Ikebana master.

Azerbaijan State Orchestra of Folk Instruments

In 2004 and 2005, the orchestra was awarded the Gizil Chang premium of the 19th and 20th Fajr Festival of International Music held in Tehran.

British Mediterranean Airways

On 5 April 2007, G-MEDL was used to return 15 British Navy personnel captured by Iranian forces from Tehran to London Heathrow.

Büyük Vatankhah

He continues to live in his beloved Tehran, although he has made many visits to Europe and the Persian Gulf States.

Central Bank of Islamic Republic of Iran's Tower

The Central Bank of Islamic Republic of Iran building was built in July 2005 in Tehran, Iran.

Charan, Iran

Charan is situated among a cluster of villages located in Alborz mountain range north of Tehran in Iran.

Code of Hammurabi

It is currently on display in The Louvre, with exact replicas in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the library of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches (Dutch: Theologische Universiteit Kampen voor de Gereformeerde Kerken) in The Netherlands, the Pergamon Museum of Berlin and the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.

Damavand College

Damavand College takes its name from the beautiful Mount Damavand which rises out of the Alborz Range north of the city of Tehran.

Dame sobh

The cover of the DVD release by Film Movement describes the film as "based on a compilation of true stories" and adds that it was "shot inside Tehran's century-old prison".

Darvish Khan

He played a concert at the Grand Hotel of Tehran with other great masters of Persian music of his time, including Aref Qazvini.

Eight-hour day

In Iran in 1918, the work of reorganizing the trade unions began in earnest in Tehran during the closure of the Iranian constitutional parliament Majles.

The printers' union, established in 1906 by Mohammad Parvaneh as the first trade union, in the Koucheki print shop on Nasserieh Avenue in Tehran, reorganized their union under leadership of Russian-educated Seyed Mohammad Dehgan, a newspaper editor and an avowed Communist.

Farhad Aslani

Aslani was born in Bijar, Iran although he grew up in Tehran, and was recognised for his impersonation skills at an early age.

Gholam Hossein Mazloumi

Mazloumi won three major tournaments with the Iranian national team: the 1972 Asian Cup, the foutball tournament of the Asian Games in Tehran in 1974 as well as the 1976 Asian Cup in Tehran as one of the top scorers.

Hamshahri

Hamshahri is published by the municipality of Tehran, and founded by Gholamhossein Karbaschi.

Iranian Journal of Physics Research

In the early stage of the publication, the main office of the Journal moved from Tehran (PSI office) to Isfahan University of Technology and is still publishing under the management of the Executive Editor, S. Mohammad Amini.

Joyce Ballou Gregorian

She then taught English for one year at the Iran Bethel School in Tehran.

Kamran Afshar Naderi

In addition to the academic activity at university, he held several seminars in the related field in Tehran and in the other Iranian cities.

Kuwait Airways

During the second part of the flight, two Lebanese Shi'a gunmen diverted the plane to Tehran.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.

M. William Howard, Jr.

Howard conducted Christmas services for the U.S. Embassy personnel held hostage in Tehran, Iran.

Miaad Shahriar Tehran F.C.

Miaad Shahriar Tehran Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Shahriar, Iran.

Mirza Abutaleb Zanjani

Arthur Henry Hardinge, the British ambassador to Iran, wrote about him:"As I have previously mentioned, the most intellectual and enlightened Shia scholar that I've met in Tehran was Mirza Abutaleb Zanjani with whom we usually had debates about religion and politics. I personally think that Mirza Abutaleb worked on the same aspiration for Islamic unity as Abdul Hamid II ... although he himself had less faith to these principals".

Misagh-1

It was developed by the Shahid Kazemi Industrial Complex in Tehran and is an all-aspect passive infrared homing system.

Mohammad Bahmanbeigi

As the son of the tribe's chief Bahmanbeigi was well educated, attending university in Tehran and learning European languages.

Murtaza

Morteza Alviri born 1948, is an Iranian politician, Mayor of Tehran 1999–2002

My Tehran for Sale

My Tehran for Sale has been compared with Cristian Mungiu's film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Parviz Jahed, an Iranian critic and film scholar.

One Million Signatures

Iranian women's rights activists in Iran started the Campaign, to follow up a peaceful protest with the same aim on 12 June 2006 in Haft-e Tir Square in Tehran.

Paul Foster-Bell

Foster-Bell was a diplomat and his last assignment was as Deputy Head of Mission at New Zealand Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, having previously served as First Secretary & Consul in Tehran in Iran, and Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan.

Persian Gulf campaign of 1809

In February 1806, the young Sultan of Oman, Sa'id II ibn Sultan, signed a treaty at Bandar Abbas promising to bring an end to piracy originating from his territory, but by 1807 the French had installed consulates in Tehran and Muscat and piracy continued unabated with their encouragement.

Pouya

Pouya Mahmoodi, Iranian guitarist, songwriter and singer born in Tehran in 1973.

Prostitution in Iran

In 2008, General Reza Zarei, the Tehran police chief, was arrested in a brothel with six prostitutes.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Ross McElwee

Retrospectives include the Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Retrospectives have also been held in Paris, Tehran, Moscow, Seoul, Lisbon, and Quito.

Safar Ghahremani

Safar Ghahremani (Persian: سفر قهرمانی) known as Safar Khan (Persian: سفر خان) (born in Azerbaijanregion – died 2002, in Tehran) was an Iranian leftist dissident and a member of (The Tudeh Party) of Iran, who spent several years of his life in prison.

Samaneh Kazemi

The reputation of Miraza made her to be invited to Tehran by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.

Sarah Kazemy

She prepared for the role by staying with her relatives in Tehran, to gain personal experience from the situation there.

Seyed Khandan

This street made connection between center and north of Tehran (Shemiranat).

Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd Baronet

He entered the British diplomatic service in 1906 and served in junior capacities in Constantinople, Tokyo, Paris and Tehran.

Tajrish

The Deputy head of Tehran Beautification Organization for technical affairs, announced that the bazaar is close to Emamzadeh Saleh Mausoleum as well as Velenjak, Darband and Darakeh mountain resorts and its renovation is a top priority for Tehran Beautification Organization.

Tension Prophecy

Tension Prophecy is a technical brutal Death Metal band from Tehran, Iran, formed by Behnam, Mohammad, and Arash M in 2008.

Tochal

A gondola lift, named Tochal Telecabin runs from Tehran to the Tochal Ski Resort and the modern Tochal Hotel, all as a part of Tochal Complex.

Tondar

On January, 2010, Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador to Iran, who is representing the interests of United States in Iran, demanding the extradition of individuals associated with the group, whom Iran believes are behind the assassination of Masoud Alimohammadi, a nuclear physics professor in Tehran who was killed in a bomb blast.

Yas-e No

Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran's general prosecutor, announced that he had ordered the ban because of a request by the High Council of National Security.


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