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Tehran [6] (/ t ɛəˈr æ n,-ˈ r ɑː n, ˌ t eɪ-/; Persian: تهران Persian pronunciation: [tehˈɾɒːn] Tehrân ⓘ) is the capital [7] and largest city of Iran. In addition to serving as the capital of Tehran province, the city is the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District. [8]
The Sa'dabad Complex (Persian: مجموعه سعدآباد, romanized: Majmuʻe-ye Saʻd-âbâd) is a 80 hectare complex built by the Qajar and Pahlavi monarchs, located in Shemiran, Greater Tehran, Iran. Today, the official residence of the President of Iran is located adjacent to the complex.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Tehran (Persian: سفارت آمریکا در تهران) was the American diplomatic mission in the Imperial State of Iran. Direct bilateral diplomatic relations between the two governments were severed following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the subsequent seizure of the embassy in November ...
Tehran also supplies missiles to Yemen's Houthi rebels and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, both members Exclusive-Satellite photos show Iran expanding missile production, sources say Skip to main ...
Germany's Lufthansa extended a suspension of its flights to Tehran on Thursday with the Middle East on alert for Iranian retaliation for a suspected Israeli air strike on Iran's embassy in Syria.
Birth Tower), also known as the Tehran Tower (برج تهران Borj-e Tehrān), [3] is a multi-purpose tower in Tehran, Iran. It is the sixth-tallest tower [ 4 ] and the world's first telecommunication tower in terms of the usage area of the top structure and the tallest tower in Iran and the 24th-tallest freestanding structure in the world. [ 5 ]
It is the former official royal Qajar complex in Tehran. One of the oldest historic monuments in the city of Tehran, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, [3] the Golestan Palace belongs to a group of royal buildings that were once enclosed within the mud-thatched walls of Tehran's arg ("citadel"). It consists of gardens, royal buildings, and ...
However, most of Tehran's historic architecture has been obliterated by the wave of hasty modernization that swept through the capital over the last 40 to 50 years. Of the eight city gates of old Tehran, none remain today. The Qajar culture flowered into a mature form of vernacular architecture, and many relics today remain of this tradition.