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unusual facts about Tehran, Iran



Abbas Yari

He is one of the three founders of FILM Monthly, the oldest post-revolutionary film magazine in Iran (founded in 1982 with Massoud Mehrabi and Houshang Golmakani).

Alabama Policy Institute

In 2005, it criticized Democrats for failing to take on a hardline position against Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements about Israel.

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.

Andreas Görlitz

Shortly after signing for Bayern, Görlitz made his debut for the Germany national team, appearing in the last five minutes of the 1–1 friendly with Brazil, on 8 September 2004; the following month, he assisted veteran Thomas Brdaric as the striker closed the score at 2–0, in another exhibition game, now with Iran.

Andrew Hutchison

Hutchison delivered a response in late 2005 to the call for the destruction of Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, condemning Ahmadinejad for his remarks which incite "hatred of the Jewish people and supporting violence against them."

Ari Ben-Menashe

Legendary Israeli spy Rafi Eitan told author Gordon Thomas, for Thomas' book Gideon's Spies, that he had worked with Ben-Menashe on setting up the US-Israeli network for covertly supplying arms to Iran, and had collaborated with Ben-Menashe on using PROMIS for espionage.

Asadi Tusi

As a result of the violence, Asadi, who lived the first twenty years of his life in Khorasan, left Khorasan for the Iranian province of Azarbaijan and stayed there till he died.

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.

Bahram Radan

Radan has left Iran and currently resides in Toronto, where he is recording music for his forthcoming album.

Beheshti

Mohammad Beheshti, one of the main architects of Iranian Islamic Revolution and the constitution of the Islamic Republic in Iran who was assassinated in 1981

Büyük Vatankhah

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

Charan, Iran

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

Darbar, Iran

Darbar, Khuzestan (داربر - Dārbar), a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

Dariush Homayoon

Fifteen months later, he left Iran through the border with Turkey and went to Paris.

Dehnow, Khorramabad

Dehnow, Dehpir, a village in Dehpir Rural District, Central District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Dehnow, Azna, a village in Azna Rural District, Central District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Dust Muhammad

The emperor Humayun sitting on some stone likeness of the throne, and in the distance under the trees playing three boys, one of whom the future Emperor Akbar I. Restless nature Doust Muhammad gave him root and in the court of the Mughal emperors - in the early 1560s, is already under Emperor Akbar I, Dust Muhammad left India and returned to Iran, where he lived out the last days in Qazvin.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

It is "likely that the notion of suicide bombing" was inspired by Hezbollah as al-Zawahiri had been to Iran to raise money, and had sent his underling Ali Mohamed, "among others, to Lebanon to train with Hezbollah".

Fruit in Iran

Since 1963 Iran is one of the major leading producer and exporters of dried fruit such as all kinds of pistachios, Sultana raisins, golden raisins, sun-dried raisins, Malayer raisins, Kashmar raisins, all kinds of Iranian dates and with its modern facilities is ready to provide its customers with all these products.

Iran–United Arab Emirates relations

The island has been under Iranian control until 1908 when Britain gained control of the island.

Khanabad, Lorestan

Khanabad, Aligudarz, a village in Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Kumbhoj

The former name is apparently free from Iranian or Paisaci influence since Maharashtra location was far removed from the north-west division of ancient India.

Leslie's House

Leslie said she was saving an old newspaper because it had the "first rumblings of Iran-Contra", a reference to the scandal in which U.S. figures facilitated the sale of arms to Iran.

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.

Middle East

These were followed by the Hittite, Greek and Urartian civilisations of Asia Minor, Elam in pre-Iranian Persia, as well as the civilizations of the Levant (such as Ebla, Ugarit, Canaan, Aramea, Phoenicia and Israel), Persian and Median civilizations in Iran, North Africa (Carthage/Phoenicia) and the Arabian Peninsula (Magan, Sheba, Ubar).

Mohammad Bahmanbeigi

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

Mohammad Vali Mirza Farman Farmaian

After the 1979 revolution he left Iran for Geneva, Switzerland with his family and not to return to Iran until he died at the age of 92.

NART TV

NART TV (National Adighe Radio and Television) is a Circassian television channel broadcast from Iran.

Nochiya Region

The sub-district of Nochiya is a mountainess area with possibly the most spectacular natural beauty in all of southern Turkey, it lies very close to the Iraq-Iran borders and at the time contained some 40 Assyrian and Kurdish villages.

Noh Alam Shah

He scored in the 1–3 defeat to Iran at the National Stadium in Singapore and in the final group game against Jordan, which Singapore lost 1–2, at the King Abdullah Stadium in Amman.

Nosratabad, Lorestan

Nosratabad, Azna, a village in Azna County, Lorestan Province, Iran

Organ trade

Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere has conducted ethnographic research in Iran, studying the medical ethics of compensating organ donors.

Parviz Gharib-Afshar

Many celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Quinn, William Holden, David Frost, and many more visiting Iran, were guests in his show.

People's Government

Azerbaijan People's Government (1945–1946), Soviet-backed client state in northern Iran

Project Dark Gene

Special equipment was provided by Rockwell International and funding was largely provided by the Shah of Iran.

Prostitution in Iran

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

Robert Levinson

On January 13, 2009, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson revealed during Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing that he believes Robert Levinson is being held in a secret prison in Iran.

Robert S. Bennett

Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation case, Caspar Weinberger, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal.

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.

Saffron Sky

"This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty."

Samaneh Kazemi

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

Sargon Stele

"Summary of the military successes: the subjugation of the Babylonian cities; the rule over all people between the Upper Sea and the Lower Sea; the victories against Elam, in Iran and in Hatti; the humiliation of Urzana of Musasir and Rusa of Urartu; the defeat of Hamath"—paragraph 3.

Saturn AL-31

Some reports suggested that Russia was offering AL-31F to Iran to re-engine its F-14 Tomcat air fleet in the late 1990s.

Sudan – South Sudan Border War

On 15 April 2012, according to IRIB World Service, an Iran Broadcasting channel, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran fully monitors the developments in the region, and calls on South Sudan to immediately and unconditionally pull back its forces and return to its territory behind the designated borders.

Talebi

Talebi, Khoshab, a village in Khoshab County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The son of a former Iranian ambassador, French-Iranian journalist and war correspondent Freidoune Sahebjam has also reported on the crimes of the Iranian government against the Bahá'í community in Iran.

Wadh

The Highway is 813 km long and stretches from Karachi-Lasbela-Khuzdar-Wadh-Kalat-Mastung-Quetta-Chaman and further onto Iran and Afghanistan.

Zaravand

300–800, in the area of Khoy (present-day Iran), it is also the name of a modern day city in Iran.


see also

Ali Kazemaini

Born in Tehran, Iran, Kazemaini moved to the United States to attend Orange High School in Orange County, California.

Amir Khadir

He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1961 and immigrated to Canada at the age of ten.

Armen Ra

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

Avenue of Flags

Avenue of Flags is a park in the city of Hermitage in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States, erected during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 - 1981 to honor the American diplomats held hostage in Tehran, Iran.

Azad University Giant Team

Azad University Giant Team (UCI Team Code: IUA) is an Iranian UCI Continental cycling team based in Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; the team was founded in 2007.

Barobax

Barobax are an underground Iranian pop band with all the three members (Khashayar Haghgoo, Keivan Haghgoo and Hamid Farouzmand) living in Tehran, Iran .

Cassandra Clare

Clare was born Judith Rumelt, to American parents, in Tehran (Iran).

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.

David King-Wood

He was born in Tehran, Iran (then Persia), the youngest of four children.

Delta Force

On 4 November 1979, shortly after Delta had been created, 53 Americans were taken captive and held in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.

Iraj Zandi

Iraj Zandi (born in Tehran, Iran, in July 1929) is an Emeritus Professor of Systems & National Center Professor of Resource Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Iranian Business School

The Iranian Business School (IBS) is an international business school located in Tehran, Iran.

James E. Service

From June 1980 to June 1981, Service was the commander of Carrier Group 8, which operated in the Indian Ocean and participated in the January 1981 release of the American hostages that had been held in Tehran, Iran, since November 1979.

Kevin Jackson

Jackson also became the first American to win the prestigious Takhti Cup (1998) in Tehran, Iran.

Khairul Anuar Mohamad

He was part of the Malaysian contingent at the 2011 Asian Archery Championships in Tehran, Iran which came away two gold medals and two silver medals.

Mike Brant

In May 1969, Brant performed at the Baccara club at the Hilton Hotel in Tehran, Iran.

Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington

From 1951 to 1952, he worked at the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran.

National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran

National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a sports governing body situated in Tehran, Iran.

Neturei Karta

In December 2006, members of Neturei Karta, including Yisroel Dovid Weiss, attended the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, a controversial conference being held in Tehran, Iran that attracted a number of high-profile Holocaust-deniers.

Nikan

Nikan High School, an elite boys'-only school located in the north of Tehran, Iran

Operation Diamond

In 1964 an Iraqi born Jew, Yusuf, contacted Israeli services in Tehran (Iran and Israel had diplomatic relations at the time) and Western Europe.

Paul VI Catholic High School

There was a high profile scandal at PVI in 1999 when it was discovered that 16-year-old student Jonathan Taylor Spielberg, who claimed to be Steven Spielberg's nephew, was actually Anoushirvan Fakhran, a 27-year-old porn actor from Tehran, Iran.

Payam Akhavan

Akhavan was born in Tehran, Iran and moved in his childhood to Toronto, Canada to flee persecution of the Baha’i religious minority before the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Rashid Massumi

Massumi was born in Nain, Iran and left Nain for Tehran, Iran at the age of 20 to study medicine at the Tehran University School of Medicine.

S P Hinduja

Hinduja began his career in his father's textile and trading businesses in Mumbai, India, and Tehran, Iran.

Shar Pourdanesh

Shahriar Pourdanesh (born July 19, 1970 in Tehran, Iran) is a former American football offensive lineman who played in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Oakland Raiders from 1996 to 2001 when in 2001 a severe knee injury cut his career short.

Tehran Railway Station

Tehran railway station (Persian: ايستگاه راه اهن تهران, Istgah-e Rah Ahan-e Tehran) is located in Rahahan Square, at the foot of Valiasr Street in the southern part of Tehran, Iran.

Tension Prophecy

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

Vahdat Hall

Vahdat Hall or Talar-e Vahdat (built 1967) is an opera house in Tehran, Iran.

Vipera latifii

The type locality is listed as "Hochtal von Lar (2180-2900 m Höhe), südwestlisch des Demavend-Gipfels im Elburs-Gebirge, nordöstlich von Tehran, Iran" High valley of the Lar (7,150–9,500 ft), southwest of Demavend Peak in the Elburz Mountains, northwest of Tehran, Iran.