Turquzabad is a rural district south of Tehran, Iran. In Persian, specially a Tehraner slang, it's used as the archetype for a remote, far away, nowhere land. More generally, it's a placeholder name, something like John Doe, but for places.
Bibi Netanyahu's claims in September 2018 about how Iran hides a nuclear facility in Turquzabad introduced this term to the English world and made Persian speakers doubt about if someone is pulling his leg.
Bibi Netanyahu's claims in September 2018 about how Iran hides a nuclear facility in Turquzabad introduced this term to the English world and made Persian speakers doubt about if someone is pulling his leg.
"So where do you come from? Turquzabad?"
-"I'm gonna find him, no matter where he goes!"
-"But you can't just follow him to Turquzabad."
-"I'm gonna find him, no matter where he goes!"
-"But you can't just follow him to Turquzabad."
by beleg September 28, 2018