Example sentences for: tehran

How can you use “tehran” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson as saying in Tehran Sunday that Iran had assured her that the death sentence on Rushdie would not be carried out, although the Ayatollah Khomeini's "fatwa" against him "cannot be revoked."

  • And although there will be government-sponsored anti-American protests today in Tehran, most student remembrances will take the form of muted calls for "dialogue."

  • The prolonged crisis of 1979-1981, when 53 Americans were held hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, ended the State Department leadership in counterterrorism.

  • It came in April 1980 during the Iranian hostage crisis, when Navy helicopters with Marine pilots flew to a site known as Desert One, some 200 miles southeast of Tehran, to rendezvous with Air Force planes carrying Delta Force commandos and fresh fuel.

  • In Germany, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung led its front page Monday with the wave of student demonstrations in Tehran, Iran, which were also prominently reported in many other leading European newspapers.


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