Official Name: | Turquzabad |
Native Name: | تورقوزآباد |
Other Name: | Chlghuzaad |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Iran |
Mapsize: | 150px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Tehran |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Rey |
Subdivision Type3: | Bakhsh |
Subdivision Name3: | Kahrizak |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural District |
Subdivision Name4: | Kahrizak |
Established Title: | Darghuzabad |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Total: | 2,803 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | IRST |
Utc Offset: | +3:30 |
Timezone Dst: | IRDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | +4:30 |
Coordinates: | 35.5039°N 51.2911°W |
Turquzabad (Persian: تورقوزآباد, also Romanized as Ţūrqūzābād) is a village in Kahrizak Rural District, Kahrizak District, Ray County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,803, in 669 families.
On September 27, 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu showed[1] the UN General Assembly a photo of an alleged nuclear storage facility in Turquzabad.
On 8 September 2019, nearly a year after Benjamin Netanyahu's claim about the secret nuclear storage in Turquzabad, Reuters reported quoting two diplomats close to the International Atomic Energy Agency as saying that uranium samples were found at the site.[2]