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"This station recalls the divine woman who awakened the world through her purity and by nurturing a great prophet," said Tehran Mayor Alireza Zakani on X.

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It is based on the teachings of Bahaullah, who was born in Iran in 1817 and is considered the prophet and founder of their monotheistic faith.

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What Peck found wasn’t a prophet or a symbol but a man full of contradictions: a writer wrestling with class, illness and empire, trying to fuse politics and art before his own time ran out.

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Many also believe that this is the place where, according to the Bible and the Quran, God spoke to the prophet from the burning bush.

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As Orwell’s George Bowling says, the feeling of being a lone prophet is an illusion.

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