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51: 381: 393: 450: 477: 435: 408: 420: 465: 337:. Because of the eastward current of the air in Tehran and its constant purification by the adjacent mountains, this town is less polluted compared to other northern parts of the city. These and many more advantages have made this area a prime and pleasant location for living, attracting many foreign temporary residents, diplomats and expatriates. 349:
is in this community. An elementary school, a middle school, and a high school all by the name of Fajr-e Danesh (but under separate management) also offered non-public schooling to boys in three separate locations in proximity of one another. Sometime between 2010 and 2016, the Fajr-e Danesh schools
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Originally built based on the model of upscale American suburbs in 1961 by French architects, today it is considered one of the most affluent neighborhoods of Tehran. The town was built in seven "phases"
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Shahram Khosravi calls it "a dissident neighborhood". Phase 7 was added in 1989, involving the confiscation and re-allocation of much of the land in the area.
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built as a massive project of modern, luxury apartment buildings and villas in the north-western part of
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An international school is located nearby, within the town, and a second is minutes away in
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offering elementary and high school education moved to different locations close by.
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Around the 1980s, there was only one central shopping center there, named
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Part of Shahrak-e Gharb in 2008
35°45′33″N 51°22′34″E / 35.75904°N 51.37603°E / 35.75904; 51.37603
District 2 (Tehran)
Time zone
UTC+03:30
region2.tehran.ir
data.tehran.ir
Persian
Persian
planned town
Tehran
Iran
Persian
Iranian revolution
Chamran Expressway
Hemmat Expressway
Niayesh Expressway
Sheikh Fazl-allah Nouri Expressway
Yadegar-e-Emam Expressway
Iranian Revolution
government of Iran
Western world
social anthropologist
Iran–Iraq War
Milad Tower
Sa'adat Abad
Tehran International School
Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch
Shahrak-e Gharb
Tehran

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