Word: mashad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...distinguished Islamic teacher from Mashad, Dr. Ali Shariati, died mysteriously in London. His students in Tehran assumed that Shariati had been murdered by SAVAK. Six months later Khomeini's son Mostafa, 49, died suddenly in Najaf a day after he had been visited by two "strangers." Khomeini has never claimed that his son was murdered, but throughout Iran it was widely assumed that SAVAK was responsible. On the occasion of his son's death, the Ayatullah wrote a letter to the Iranian people that is now regarded as the crucial document of the revolution. After denouncing the "absurdities...
Protesters also attacked the U.S.-owned Hyatt Hotel in the northeastern city of Mashad yesterday, destroying the ground floor and attempting to set fire to the hotel's night club...
...Murad (above right), one of Frye's companions, applies squeeze paper to the ancient inscription in Sar Mashad, Persia. Back in his Kirkland House study, Frye (below right) begins the long job of translation...
...House, Jan. 5 to March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...