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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada">A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada</a> traveled to <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a> in 1976. Since 1977, <a href="/wiki/ISKCON" class="mw-redirect" title="ISKCON">ISKCON</a> runs a vegetarian restaurant in Tehran.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hinduism_in_Iran&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1261442011">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}@media screen and 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#000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2010</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">20,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2015</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">39,200</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+96.0%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">Source: <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><b>Year</b> </th> <th><b>Percent</b> </th> <th><b>Increase</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>2010</b> 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