Tehran's city council has voted to name a street in the Iranian capital after a liberal prime minister who was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup in 1953.

Tehran's municipal council has named a street after an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003.

Roosevelt Street, meanwhile, ran along the eastern side of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. These days, however, few streets in Iran are named after Western nationals, although there is the ...

Tehran renames street to honor Yahya Sinwar; Nasrallah proposal rejected Iran; share close. URL Copied; Al Arabiya English. Published: 24 December ,2024: 03:49 PM GST Updated: 26 December ,2024: ...

TEHRAN – The scheme to make Vali Asr Street one-way northbound (from Beheshti Ave. to Parkway Ave.) was implemented from Monday mid-night -- because of the lack of public awareness the new scheme ...

A slim volume chronicling the slang used on the streets of Tehran has become an unlikely bestseller. The Persian Dictionary of Argot began as an academic study of new vernacular words in Farsi. But ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran’s city council has voted to name a street in the Iranian capital after a liberal prime minister who was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup in 1953. The CIA-back… ...