Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Iran near the Caspian Sea east-southeast of Tabriz.
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- noun city in northwestern Iran near the Caspian Sea
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Examples
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The caption on this video, via an Iranian-American friend, says it was taken in Rasht, a city in northern Iran by the Caspian Sea.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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Born in Rasht, Iran in 1968, graphic designer, illustrator, and animator Alireza Darvish attended the Fine Arts Institute in Teheran, 1984-88, and thereafter became one of Iran's foremost illustrators.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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A quick Google search provided over a dozen domestic websites scattered across Iran from Rasht, a coastal city in the north, to the southern city of Ahwaz.
A Craze for Pooches in Iran Dogs the Morality Police Farnaz Fassihi 2011
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In June, evangelical priest Yousef Nadrkhani and his wife, both converts, were arrested in the northern city of Rasht.
Iran Targets Christians With a Wave of Arrests Farnaz Fassihi 2011
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Rasht, the capital, where this person died, is a modern, European-looking city (not unlike something from the Czech Republic or Lithuania – or 1990s Serbia or Croatia for a perhaps more apt comparison!).
Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009
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Born in Rasht, Iran in 1968, graphic designer, illustrator, and animator Alireza Darvish attended the Fine Arts Institute in Teheran, 1984-88, and thereafter became one of Iran's foremost illustrators.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Born in Rasht, Iran in 1968, graphic designer, illustrator, and animator Alireza Darvish attended the Fine Arts Institute in Teheran, 1984-88, and thereafter became one of Iran's foremost illustrators.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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Shortly after he became the prosecutor of Rasht, he ordered a person to be stoned, and today Delara Darabi's soul left her body.
Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009
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Born in Rasht, Iran in 1968, graphic designer, illustrator, and animator Alireza Darvish attended the Fine Arts Institute in Teheran, 1984-88, and thereafter became one of Iran's foremost illustrators.
Stephen J. Gertz: The Surrealistic Book Paintings of Alireza Darvish Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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On Friday morning, Iranian authorities executed Delara Darabi, a 23 year-old woman, who was convicted for a murder at the age of 17 and held at the Rasht Central Prison for several years.
Global Voices in English » Iran: “Prisoner of Colours” is Executed 2009
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