Tehran
About Tehran
Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is also the capital of Tehran province and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District. With a population of around 9 million in the city, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and West Asia, the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East after Cairo, and the 24th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world. Greater Tehran includes several municipalities, including Karaj, Eslamshahr, Shahriar, Qods, Malard, Golestan, Varamin, Pakdasht, Qarchak, Nasimshahr, Parand, Pardis, Andisheh and Fardis.
On the show · 10 mentions total
During the Iran hostage crisis, the CIA managed to sneak some agents into Tehran and they had false German passports. One of the agents was stopped by the customs officials and they said, something's wrong with your passport — this is the first time I've seen a German passport which has a middle initial instead of a full name.
from No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival, 2018-01-26 at 00:48:58 · read transcript
Other times Tehran came up
They were deciding what the deal was and how the world was going to look and the shape of Europe and the idea of the United Nations, all of this stuff. There was Tehran and there was Yalta and Potsdam, and goldfish were a bit of a feature of the Yalta conference, certainly. There was a huge amount of buggery, bugging taking place.
No Such Thing As Tibetan Traitors, 2026-09-24 · listen
In Iran, yeah. So he's basically taken all of these names from all the different deposed people and then put them into his name. Wow, like he has his parents have. He basically lives in Tehran or anyway, capital of Albania and he has a little royal residence. It's quite a nice house, but it's not a mansion. It's not a palace. When he opens his gate, he has a little yard there.
434: No Such Thing As Robinson Two-Soe, 2022-07-08 · listen
They're all sober. Then in 1943, so this one was in Moscow, you were talking about, Dan. Then the next year they met in Tehran, and Churchill presented Stalin with a special sword, the sword of Stalingrad,.
No Such Thing As Tibetan Traitors, 2026-09-24 · listen
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