The name of a garden, public square, and complex of buildings in central Tehran, the main part of which presently forms the headquarters of an Islamic revolution militia, the Central Committee of the Islamic Revolution (Komita-ye Markazi-e Enqelab-e Eslami); the southern section houses the Majles library. The site was originally the property of Moḥammad-Hasan Khan Sardar iravani and was purchased …

Tehran (Persian: تهران‎ Tehran; pronounced [tehˈɾɒn]), is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With a population of around 8.3 million and surpassing 14 million in the wider metropolitan area, Tehran is Iran’s largest city and urban area, and the largest city in Western Asia.In the 20th and 21st centuries, Tehran has been the subject of mass migration of people …