Shahed - Bagher Shahr Metro Station is a station in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Metro Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to: Geography * Metro (city), a city in Indonesia * A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center Public transport * Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urba ...

Line 1. It is between

Haram-e Motahhar Metro Station Haram-e Motahhar-e Emam Khomeini Metro station, formerly simply called Haram-e Motahhar Metro Station, is a station of Tehran Metro Line 1. The next station is Shahed - Bagher Shahr on the north side and Kahrizak Kahrizak (Kahrizak in Farsi, w ...

and

Palayeshgah Metro Station Palyeshgah Metro Station is a station in Tehran Metro Line 1. It is located near Tehran Refinary, a town near Shahr-e-Rey on the southern outskirts of Tehran. It is Between Shahed - Bagher Shahr Metro Station and Shahr-e-Rey Metro Station. ...

. It is located north of

Behesht-e Zahra Behesht-e Zahra ( fa, بهشت زهرا, lit. ''The Paradise of Zahra'', from Fatima az-Zahra) is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part of metropolitan Tehran, it is connected to the city by Tehran Metro Line 1. History ...

beside

Northern Behesht-e Zahra Expressway Northern Behesht-e-Zahra Highway ( fa, بزرگراه شمالی بهشت زهرا) is an expressway in northern part of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery connecting Tehran- Qom Highway to Freeway A controlled-access highway is a type of highway t ...

. The station was formerly called Shahed, but the name was changed, along with the name of

, formerly known simply as Baghershahr on 26 August 2017.شهرداری باقرشهر - نام ایستگاه مترو شاهد به ایستگاه “شاهد- باقرشهر” تغییر یافت
/ref> The reason was that this station, even though not named after the town

Baqershahr Baqershahr ( fa, باقرشهر; formerly, Baqerabad (Persian: باقِر آباد), also Romanized as Bāqerābād; also known as Bāqerābād-e Bāqerof and Bāqerābād-e Bāqer of) is a city in Kahrizak District, Ray County, Tehran Province, ...

, is only away from the city limit, whereas the other station is away from town limit, but only away from

Tehran Refinery Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most pop ...

, after which it is now named.

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