Upon the request of Shoghi Effendi, he also provided designs for a Bahá ' í House of Worship in Tehran, for Haifa, and the Shrine of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, however only the Haifa temple was approved before the death of Shoghi Effendi, and none have so far been built.

Iraq invaded Iran, first attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and then entering the oil-rich Iranian land of Khuzestan, which also has a sizable Arab minority, on 22 September 1980 and declared it a new province of Iraq.

These chemical weapons were developed by Iraq from materials and technology supplied primarily by West German companies as well as the Reagan administration of the United States which also supplied Iraq with " satellite photos showing Iranian deployments " and advised Hussein to bomb civilian targets in Tehran and other Iranian cities.

Shiraz also has a significant Baha ' i population, the largest in the country after Tehran.

* Streets were also named after him in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, in Budapest, Hungary ( between 1961 and 1990 ); Jakarta ( between 1945 to 1967 ); Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria ( until 1991-2 ) Skopje, Republic of Macedonia ; Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea ; Tehran, Iran ; Algiers, Algeria ( Rue Patrice Lumumba ); Santiago de Cuba, Cuba ( since 1960, formerly Avenida de Bélgica ); Łódź, Warsaw, Poland ; Kiev, Ukraine ; Perm, Russia ; Rabat, Morocco ; Maputo, Mozambique ; Leipzig, Germany ; Lusaka, Zambia (" Lumumba Street "); Kampala, Uganda (" Lumumba Avenue "); Tunis, Tunisia ; Fort-de-France, Martinique ; Montpellier, France ; Accra, Ghana ; Antananarivo, Madagascar ; Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Alexandria, Egypt and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

During the war, Tehran also received a great number of migrants from the west and the southwest of the country bordering Iraq.

Stalin turned down the offer to meet in Cairo, also an offer to meet in Baghdad and also in Basra – finally agreeing to meet in Tehran in November 1943.

One remarkable thing that was also decided at the Tehran Conference was the way in which the Allies would deal with Finland, a free democratic country which cooperated with Germany after Soviet aggression and one that had not signed the Tripartite Pact, and had not declared war on any free Allied countries.

Syria also allowed leaders of Hamas and other Palestinian groups resident in Syria to visit Tehran.

The University of Tehran (), also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest university.

University of Tehran also co-ordinates several major institutes:

Mosaddegh also taught at the University of Tehran at the start of World War I before beginning his long political career.

He also proposed fuzzy numbers as a special case of fuzzy sets, as well as the corresponding rules for consistent mathematical operations ( fuzzy arithmetic ). In 1942, he graduated from the University of Tehran with a degree in electrical engineering ( Fanni ).

Many Georgians or Iranians of partial Georgian descent are also scattered in major Iranian cities, such as Tehran, Esfahan, Karaj and Shiraz.

It is also spoken in some districts of Tehran city and across Tehran Province.

Rey or Ray (, Shahr-e-Ray, " City of Ray "), also known as Rhages (;, Rhagai ; or Rhaganae ) and formerly as Arsacia, is the capital of Rey County, Tehran Province, Iran, and is the oldest existing city in the province.

It is believed that Iraqi forces used multiple chemical agents during the attack, including mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX ; some sources have also pointed to the blood agent hydrogen cyanide ( most of the wounded taken to hospitals in the Iranian capital Tehran were suffering from mustard gas exposure ).

Mosaddegh also taught at the University of Tehran at the start of WWI before beginning his long political career.

He has also defeated Utut Adianto (+ 3 = 3 ) in Jakarta 1995, Étienne Bacrot in Albert 2000 (+ 3 = 2 – 1 ), Hannes Stefansson in Reykjavík 2002 (+ 4 = 1 – 1 ), Ehsan Ghaem Maghami in Tehran 2003 (+ 2 = 4 ) and Zahar Efimenko in Mukachevo 2009 (+ 2 = 3 – 1 ).

Isfahan ( Middle Persian Spahān, Classical New Persian Ispahān ) ( Esfahān ), historically also rendered in English as Ispahan, Sepahan or Hispahan, is the capital of Isfahan Province in Iran, located about 340 km south of Tehran.

The party backed the Iranian Revolution and also Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Iran-Iraq War and the group still receives financial support from Tehran despite ideological differences with the Islamic Republic.

The school's name has since changed several times, but since 1989 has been considered a branch campus of the Petroleum University of Technology, centered in Tehran.

In Iran, SYSTRA has done a " Tehran long term urban rail study ".

Tehran Metro currently has a commuter line between Tehran and Karaj.

The major Iranian newspaper Hamshahri has published two articles on illegal writers in the city with photo coverage of Iranian artist A1one's works on Tehran walls.

* Strong population growth combined with economic stagnation has created urban conglomerations in Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran, Karachi, Dhaka, and Jakarta each with well over 12 million citizens, millions of them young and unemployed or underemployed.

Iran has an embassy in Kenya and Kenya has an embassy in Tehran.

The Persian calendar, in use in Afghanistan and Iran, has its year begin on the day of the vernal equinox as determined by astronomical computation ( for the time zone of Tehran ), as opposed to using an algorithmic system of leap years.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, Tehran has been the subject to mass migration of people from all around Iran.

Throughout Iran's history, the capital has been moved many times, and Tehran is the 32nd national capital of Iran.

Tehran has seen an increase in relative humidity and annual precipitation in the last ten years.

In 2010, the government of Iran announced that " for security and administrative reasons " the plan to move the capital from Tehran has been finalized.

Iraq has an embassy in Tehran.

The Central Library and Documentation Center of the University of Tehran has been a member of the International Federation of Library Associations and institutions ( IFLA ) since 1967.

The University of Tehran Press ( UTP ), which focuses on publishing academic books, has published over 5, 000 books up until today, and currently publishes on average more than one book per day.

UT's central mosque has been a center for religious and political activity in Tehran during the past 30 years.

University of Tehran ( UT ) has always been a bastion of political movement and ideology.

The political and social role of University of Tehran in the Iranian domestic arena has continued to be so pronounced that in November 2005 ( to February 2008 ) a senior Islamic scholar became chancellor of the university, replacing Dr. Faraji-dana ( professor of electrical engineering faculty ).

Ali Javan has been ranked Number 12 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses. He graduated from Alborz High School, started his university studies at University of Tehran and came to the United States in 1948 right after the war.

It is most severe in highly industrialized, densely populated areas of North America, Europe, and Japan and in major cities in the Middle East and North Africa like Tehran and Cairo, but even relatively small amounts of light can be noticed and create problems.

Carrying little or no luggage, and with small amounts of cash, almost all followed the same route, hitch-hiking across Europe to Athens and on to Istanbul, then by train through central Turkey via Erzurum, continuing by bus into Iran, via Tabriz and Tehran to Mashhad, across the Afghan border into Herat, through southern Afghanistan via Kandahar to Kabul, over the Khyber Pass into Pakistan, via Rawalpindi and Lahore to the Indian frontier.

In the mid-1990s, Jibril held conferences with these groups in Tehran and Damascus in order to achieve tighter coordination of activities, though his organization remained small and its own actions were more concerned with aiding Hezbollah and achieving an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

There are also apparently stable populations in the USA ( Florida, California and Hawaii ) and a small self-sustaining population in Tunis, Tunisia, and Tehran, Iran ( concentrated in the north side of the city ).

Followers of the Baha ' i faith are scattered throughout small communities in Iran, although there seems to be a large population of people who follow the Baha ' i faith in Tehran.

Traditionally, the Tehran bazaar was split into corridors, each specialising in different types of goods, including copper, carpets, paper, spices, and precious metals, as well as small traders selling all types of goods.

Asef Bayat was born in the mid-1950s, in a small village located approximately sixty miles west of Tehran.

Due to the relatively small size of Semnan when compared to other major Iranian cities such as Tehran, Tabriz, and Mashad, Semnan's rich historical monuments and scholarly figures are often forgotten.

*** A small group of protesters gather outside the Danish embassy in Tehran.