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Teheran


(te-RAHN, te-RAN, tay-uh-RAHN, tay-uh-RAN) Capital of Iran and the largest city in the country; located in northern Iran.	1
‡ Site of the Teheran Conference (1943), at which United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met and agreed on Allied war plans and postwar cooperation in the United Nations.	2

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