Mashad

ABC's Lara Setrakian: "just heard disturbing news of 22-yr-old in Mashad shot dead while chanting allahu akbar on roof. unconf, tho from trusted srce"

Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 24) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

Monday's protests began peacefully in the early afternoon as men and women streamed on foot along pre-designated routes in multiple cities such as Tehran, Isfahan, Mashad and Shiraz.

Tehran Beats Back New Protests Farnaz Fassihi 2011

But the renewed anti-regime uprisings that have taken place in recent weeks in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashad, Shiraz and other cities—and the brutality of the Iranian government's response to them—tell a very different story.

How Obama Can Help Iran's Opposition Ilan Berman 2011

In the northeastern city of Mashad, a businesswoman named Farideh, who owns a carpet-weaving factory, said she has had to lay off several workers and cut production in the past two months as the market has fluctuated and inflation increased.

Iran Cracks Down on Dollar Trades Bill Spindle 2012

Iran's intelligence minister said in October that his agents had discovered hundreds of underground church groups, including 200 in the Muslim holy city of Mashad.

Iran Targets Christians With a Wave of Arrests Farnaz Fassihi 2011

Witnesses in the cities of Mashad, Isfahan and Tabriz saw crowds they estimated at thousands of demonstrators each, with blog reports and other online dispatches placing overall participation in such cities at over 10,000 each.

Tehran Beats Back New Protests Farnaz Fassihi 2011

A knife-wielding Afghan man tried to break a window on a commercial flight from Kabul to Mashad, Iran before being subdued by passengers and cabin crew, amid warnings from the Taliban of stepped-up attacks.

Armed Man Subdued on Afghan Flight 2010

El-Mashad then spent three weeks in a Pakistani prison in Peshawar, and was then flown to the U.S. prison at Kandahar airport, where he spent several more months before being transferred to Guantánamo.

Who Are the Four Prisoners Released from Guantanamo to Albania and Spain? 2010

One woman I spoke to, who is a retired teacher in Mashad, was happy that 22 Bahman turned out the way it did because now the world would go ahead with sanctions and hasten the regime's fall.

We Need a Plan B for the Liberation of Iran 2010

The man, who wasn't identified, was being questioned by officials from Afghanistan's intelligence agency in the southern city of Kandahar, where the state-owned Ariana Airlines flight made a scheduled stop en route to Mashad on Sunday, said Zemarai Bashary, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.

Armed Man Subdued on Afghan Flight 2010