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Quotes About Teheran

population. By the end of 1915 the Allies found the situation so menacing that the Russians, supported by the 8,000-strong Russian-officered Persian Cossacks, occupied the north of the country, taking over the capital city of Teheran and, with it, the weak, recently crowned young Shah. The most pro-German of the politicians fled, initially to the holy city of Qum, and later to Kermanshah, near the Ottoman frontier, where a German puppet government was established, backed by Ottoman troops.
~ David Fromkin
By the end of 1915 the Allies found the situation so menacing that the Russians, supported by the 8,000-strong Russian-officered Persian Cossacks, occupied the north of the country, taking over the capital city of Teheran and, with it, the weak, recently crowned young Shah. The most pro-German of the politicians fled, initially to the holy city of Qum, and later to Kermanshah, near the Ottoman frontier, where a German puppet government was established, backed by Ottoman troops.
~ David Fromkin
Ho sentito un alito di brezza, il primo da quattro mesi che non lasciasse una morsa gelida. Ho annusato la primavera, e la linfa che scorreva. Stavo vivendo uno di quei rari momenti di pace assoluta, in cui il corpo è rilassato, la mente non s'interroga e il mondo è un trionfo. E tutto perché Teheran era lontana.
~ Robert Byron
His two brief trips to attend the party congresses in Stockholm and London in 1906 and 1907 were, by the way, his first exposures to foreign life, and it is doubtful that he spent much time outside the meeting-halls. A six-week sojourn in Cracow and Vienna at the beginning of 1913 was his only other known venture abroad before he traveled to Teheran in 1943 to confer with Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt on the war against the Axis.
~ Robert C. Tucker
The University of Tehran had become the seat of too much disappointment, too much sorrow and hurt. Never again would I rush so innocently, so eagerly, to a class as I did in those days at the dawn of the revolution.
~ Azar Nafisi
I did not threaten him; I only showed surprise in still finding him here when I planned to meet him tonight in Teheran," said Death.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Clearly, the Iranians are well aware that Teheran would be turned into a field of glass and sand if they ever stepped toward open war with Israel or Saudi Arabia.
~ Mike Barnicle