The foundation also receives generous contributions from the millions of pilgrims who visit the Mashhad shrine each year.

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Emergency shelters are also being airlifted to Mashhad in eastern Iran, some of it provided by the United Kingdom.

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The killer was arrested last year in the north-eastern city of Mashhad, according to the main reformist newspaper Norouz.

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In Mashhad, the capital of Iran's eastern province of Khorasan and home to some 400, 000 refugees, the provincial governor accuses local Afghans of drug-running and kidnapping.

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Khamenei, who hosted al-Maliki in the city of Mashhad on Thursday night, said national unity was "the key to solving problems" and urged Iraq's various ethnic and religious groups to cooperate.

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The largest "charity" (at least in terms of real estate holdings) is the centuries-old Razavi Foundation, charged with caring for Iran's most revered shrine--the tomb of Reza, the Eighth Shiite Imam, in the northern city of Mashhad.

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The officers took Hofer and the girl to the security office of the airport and in the course of the interrogation, the girl said that she had got to know Helmut Hofer several months earlier at a hotel in Mashhad.

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