Tehran — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.

   Examples

   Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval.

2. A county of Iran, around the city.

3. Tehran Province, one of the 31 provinces in Iran.

4. The Tehran Conference (1943).

5. The government of Iran.

   Usage

   • metonymically

   Examples

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   I want to add one more thing to that: one thing that you will read in all the reporting of the war; all the decision making; all the ways this has turned into a mess for the administration — one thing you’ll see is that they just did not expect this level of resistance from Tehran; they did not expect this level of sophistication from Tehran — they just didn’t expect it at all.