- IRAN
- Signatory of a 2015 nuclear deal
- Neighbor of Pakistan
- Bahai home
- OPEC member
- Pahlavi's former domain
- Persia, now
- Where Qum is
- Where rials are spent
- Zagros' Mountains locale
- __-Contra affair
- Before 1935 it was Persia
- Capital is Teheran
- Country in the RAIN?
- Country on the Caspian
- Formerly Persia
- Oil-producing country
- Tabriz locale
- A "-gate" opener
- Afghanistan neighbor
- Dr. Seuss's "If ___ the Zoo"
- Former domain of the Shah
- Persia, formerly
- Persia, formerly (4)
- Persian Gulf land
- Teheran is here
- Tehran's locale
- Coward's confession
- Persia, after 1935
- Setting for the 2011 Oscar-winning film {/A Separation/}
- Site of ancient ice houses called {/yakhchal/}
- Homeland of the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
- Its flag has "Allahu akbar" written on it 22 times
- Turkey neighbor
- Argo setting
- Persepolis setting
- Country where "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is set
- Green Movement country
- Modern-day birthplace of Zoroastrianism
- Home to the iconic diva Googoosh
- Islamic republic
- Land south of the Caspian
- Where Shiraz is
- Where diners use dinars
- Persia, today __
- Scene of a 1979 revolution
- Alborz mountains home
- Country with imposed sanctions
- Hassan Rouhani's country
- Its Independence Day is April 1 (no foolin')
- Its national anthem begins "Upwards on the horizon rose the Eastern Sun"
- One of OPEC's founding nations
- Qom home
- Rial estate?
- Shiraz locale
- Supreme Leader's country
- Supreme Leader's nation
- Founding OPEC nation
- Strait of Hormuz country
- Nation with a Supreme Leader
- Rouhani's land
- It's roughly 99.4% Muslim
- Finisher's song?
- Present-day country where polo was likely invented
- Supreme Leader's land
- Shiite stronghold
- 34-Down member
- Flock of Seagulls song
- Land of Qom
- Home to some Kurds
- Boxer Barkley
- Caviar exporter
- Light heavyweight Barkley
- Persian Gulf power
- Where Farsi is spoken
- Azerbaijan neighbor
- Where to find Shiraz
- Land in "Argo"
- Land on a gulf
- Persian-speaking land
- Teheran's land
- Teheran's place
- Contemporary Persia
- Persia, today
- Persian Gulf country
- Present Persia
- Setting of James Clavell's "Whirlwind"
- Birthplace of Bahai
- Dasht-i-Lut location
- Supporter of Palestine
- Modern-day location of Parthia
- Omid satellite launcher
- Where the Bahai religion was founded
- Mideast nation that borders the Caspian Sea
- Nation bordering the Caspian Sea
- Nation that's home to Persepolis
- Rouhani's nation
- Site of Persepolis, now
- Setting for 2012's "Argo"
- Country with the only remaining wild Asiatic cheetahs
- What's asked to "go away", in a familiar rhyme
- Site of the world's largest shopping mall in gross leasable area
- Where Nowruz, or New Year's day, is celebrated on the first day of spring
- Baghdad's now-dilapidated Victory over _____ Palace
- Mideast theocracy
- Persia, nowadays
- Tabriz's country
- Baha'i's country of origin
- Country on the Caspian Sea
- OPEC charter member
- Persia, since 1935
- Shah's domain, once
- Teheran's country
- Tehran's land
- Founding member of OPEC
- Home to many Kurds
- Nation on the Persian Gulf
- OPEC nation
- Shah's land, once
- Teheran's nation
- Theocracy of the Middle East
- Country for some Kurds
- Country on the Persian Gulf
- Shah's place, once
- Where Baha'i was founded
- Land of Tabriz
- Neighbor of Afghanistan
- Qom's country
- Where Khomeini ruled
- Where Tabriz is
- Heartland of the Persian Empire
- It was Persia in the past
- It's south of Georgia
- Kuwait neighbor
- Pahlavi ruled there
- Pakistan neighbor
- Strait of Hormuz adjoiner
- Where to find the Elburz Mountains
- Country which was once Persia
- Land in which Farsi is spoken
- Land on the Caspian
- Literally, "Land of the Aryans"
- Mideast country
- Part of 47-Down
- President Khatami's country
- Turkmenistan neighbor
- ___ (So Far Away) (1982 hit for A Flock of Seagulls)
- Khomeini's country
- Present-day Persia
- Tehran's place
- Emerging nuclear nation
- Nation once known as Persia
- One of the Persian Gulf States
- Turkey toucher
- Where they speak Farsi
- Country renamed in 1935
- Where Teheran is the capital
- Ayatollah's land
- Caspian Sea nation
- Gulf of Oman adjoiner
- Site of the Peacock Throne
- Ahmadinejad's land
- Azerbaijan adjoiner
- Middle East nation
- Caspian country
- Current-day Persia
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's country
- Modern home of ancient Media
- Nation on the Gulf of Oman
- Neighbor of Azerbaijan
- Oil-rich nation
- Persian Gulf nation
- Qum country
- -gate opener of the '80s
- Elburz Mountains locale
- Iraq's foe for much of the 1980s
- Where Baha'i began
- ___-Contra Affair
- Country bordering the Caspian Sea
- Farsi-speaking nation
- Meshed setting
- Country on the Strait of Hormuz
- Country whose name means "Land of the Aryans"
- Republic whose Supreme Leader is Ali Khamenei
- Homeland of Bahaism
- One of OPEC's founders
- Republic bordering the Caspian
- 1979 hostage locale
- Adjoiner of Afghanistan
- Afghanistan's neighbor to the west
- Country now home to the ruins of Persepolis
- Shah's realm, once
- Site of ancient Persepolis
- Where to find rial spenders
- Ahmadinejad's homeland
- Isfahan's land
- Its Supreme Leader is Ali Khamenei
- Persian's place
- Country where election protestor Neda Agha-Soltan was killed on June 20, 2009
- Hassan Rouhani is its seventh president
- Land of Khomeini and Khamenei
- Tehran tehritory
- Esfahan's land
- Tehran is its capital
- Farsi-speaking country
- Persia
- Teheran is its capital
- East of Turkey
- Former shahdom
- Ayatollah land
- It abuts Turkey
- Khatami's land
- Khomeini's land
- Teheran's terrain
- Caspian Sea country
- Caspian Sea land
- Mideast land
- Peacock Throne country
- Dr. Seuss "If ___ the Zoo"
- Its capital is Tehran
- 1979 revolution site
- Bani Sadr was its president in 1980-81
- Qom's land
- Farsi-speaking land
- Former home of the Peacock Throne
- Zagros Mountains country
- Caspian land
- Country where Baha'i was founded
- Country divided in 111-Across
- Mideast nation
- OPEC founding member
- __ (So Far Away): 1982 hit for A Flock of Seagulls
- Afghanistan's western neighbor
- Farsi-speaking republic
- Mashhad is its second-largest city
- Modern-day theocracy
- OPEC co-founder
- 1974 Asian Games host
- Shiite Islam is its state religion
- Turkey is always next to it
- World's leading saffron-producing nation
- Land with a red, white and green flag
- Tehran's country
- __-Iraq War: '80s conflict
- Major exporter of handmade carpets
- Qajar dynasty country, today
- Dr. Seuss' "If __ the Circus"
- Where some natives speak Azeri or Luri
- Land formerly ruled by a shah
- Maranjab Desert country
- Part of Kurdistan is in it
- Shah's former land
- Mideast nation in a 2015 nuclear deal
- Persian Gulf republic
- Persian rug source
- Reading Lolita in Tehran setting
- Part of Xerxes I's realm, nowadays
- Shiraz's country
- Shiraz's land
- Persepolis ruins locale
- Country whose name ends in the same three letters as its capital
- Azadi Tower country
- Country that outlawed alcohol in 1979
- Home country of Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi
- Iraq's eastern neighbor
- Nation that follows the Solar Hijri calendar
- Setting of the graphic novel "Persepolis"
- Setting of the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
- Big pistachio exporter
- Country north of 40-Down
- Country of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi
- Country where Farsi is spoken
- Iraq neighbor
- Country whose emblem resembles a tulip
- Persepolis locale
- Persian Gulf country that borders Armenia
- Where Abadan is
- Asian republic
- Kurdish country
- Land on the Caspian Sea
- Meshed's country
- Moslem nation
- Shah's homeland
- Lake Urmia's land
- Qum home
- Earthquake site of '90
- Scene of a 1970 revolution
- Shah's home
- Syria neighbor
- Teheran's locale
- Where to find 38 Across
- Armenia adjoiner
- Teheran's home
- Where Meshed is
- Seuss' "If __ the Zoo"
- Shah's land
- Teheran locale
- '80s foe of Iraq
- Armenia neighbor
- Its capital is Teheran
- Middle East republic
- Neighbor of Iraq
- Persia, at present
- If __ the Circus (Seuss book)
- Modern Persia
- Where Teheran is
- Persia's current name
- Qum's land
- Shah's country
- Where Tehran is
- Where to hear Farsi
- Ayatollah's country
- Its New Year's Day is in March
- Kurdistan's locale, in part
- Muslim state
- Nation on the Caspian
- Rug exporter
- Cyrus' realm, today
- Dr. Seuss' "If __ the Zoo"
- Neighbor of Armenia
- Persia, in the past
- OPEC country
- Oil source
- Revolution land of '79
- Election locale of 2009
- Member of 22 Down
- Where "dollars" are dinars
- Name derived from "Aryan"
- See 21 Down
- Tehran's nation
- Birthplace of polo, today
- Modern-day Persia
- Charter OPEC member
- Shi'ite state
- It borders Afghanistan
- It's west of Afghanistan
- Nation west of Afghanistan
- Only nation with a Caspian and Indian Ocean coastline
- President Rouhani's homeland
- Country in Argo
- Persepolis site, today
- 6 Down neighbor
- Its flag has four crescents
- Land on the Indian Ocean
- Nation bordering Iraq
- Shah's onetime domain
- Nation with the most natural-gas reserves
- Persian-speaking nation
- U.S. occupation target in 2014's "RoboCop"
- If __ the Zoo (Seuss book)
- #2 Mideast nation in area
- Asian producer of nearly all of the world's saffron
- Current name of Persia
- Nation on the Caspian Sea
- Caspian sharer with 25 Across
- Persia, presently
- Seuss' "If __ the Circus"
- Where Teheran is capital
- It's swallowed by piranha
- Nation bordering Pakistan
- Nation on the Indian Ocean
- Part of Alexander's empire, today
- Teheran's county
- Where shahs once reigned
- Its flag has Arabic words
- Where "dollars" are rials
- Land led by a 26 Down
- Major producer of pomegranates
- Neighbor of Syria
- Afghanistan's neighbor.
- Asiatic nation.
- Kingdom of Asia.
- Soraya's land.
- Neighbor of Turkmenistan
- Asia's Plateau of ___
- Mount Damavand locale
- Country across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman
- East Azerbaijan is a province in it
- Home to Lake Urmia
- Kurdistan overlaps part of it
- Media, today
- The rial world?
- It borders the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman
- Qum's country
- Where Pashto is spoken
- Country across the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia
- Setting of the Dasht-i-Lut desert
- Teheran is its largest city
- 1982 Flock of Seagulls hit subtitled "So Far Away"
- Charter member of OPEC
- Country on the Gulf of Oman
- Member of Bush's "axis of evil"
- Setting of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
- U.N. member since its inception
- Where the Qezel Owzan flows
- Azadi Stadium setting
- It has a Supreme Leader
- Its flag says "God is great" 22 times
- Revolutionary Guard country
- Sistan and Baluchestan is its largest province
- Country administered by Pahlevi.
- Middle East Kingdom.
- Near East nation.
- United Nation.
- Where Pahlevi is Shah.
- Country of Big Three meeting.
- Land of the Lion and the Sun.
- Prime Minister Soheily's country.
- Where Pahlavi rules.
- Middle East country.
- Hot seat of oil disputes.
- Azerbaijan is here.
- Where the Karun flows.
- Mohammed Riza Pahlevi's realm.
- Entezam's country.
- Shah Pahlevi's country.
- Where Abadan Island is.
- Where Harriman is meditating.
- Where Loy Henderson is now our Ambassador.
- Ambassador Grady's post.
- Beneficiary of Point 4 program.
- Britain's big problem.
- Country of 39 Down.
- Country of the late Ali Razmara.
- Crucial part of the Near Eastern problem.
- Entezam's land.
- Hussein Makki's land.
- Near East oil center.
- Pahlevi's land, site of first major "Point 4" project.
- Recipient of recent $25,000,000 loan by U. S.
- Scene of Britain's big problem.
- The country with the oil.
- Trouble spot in the Near East.
- It fairly floats on oil.
- Land of the Shah.
- Middle East powder keg.
- Pahlevi's country.
- Pahlevi's domain.
- Part of the Near East.
- Scene of recent revolution.
- Soraya's country.
- U. S.–British diplomatic problem.
- Where Isfahan is.
- Where the Majlis convenes.
- Where they spend rials.
- Home of the Persian.
- Land of oil
- Land of the Shiites.
- Oil-rich country.
- Part of the Middle East.
- Queen Soraya's land.
- Turkey's neighbor.
- Where Hoover Jr. mediated.
- Where to spend rials.
- Asian country.
- Country of 19 and 49 Across.
- Member of Baghdad pact group.
- Member of the Arab League.
- Pahlevi's land.
- Riza Shah's country.
- Where Nishapur is.
- Where to spend a rial.
- Asiatic country.
- Land of the Middle East.
- Neighbor of Baluchistan.
- Shah Pahlavi's domain.
- Vast plateau of SW Asia.
- Where Kerman is.
- Where the Elburz Mountains are.
- Baghdad Pact country.
- Baghdad Pact member.
- Formerly called Persia.
- Kingdom in Asia.
- Kingdom on the Persian Gulf.
- Country of Asia.
- Farah Diba's home.
- Member of CENTO.
- Asian land.
- Country visited by Eisenhower.
- Crown Prince Riza's country.
- Kingdom of SW Asia.
- Neighbor of 58 Across.
- Queen Farah's country.
- See 15 Across.
- Where to spend 13 Across.
- Asiatic kingdom.
- Eastern country.
- Kurdish is spoken here.
- Land of a new Crown Prince.
- Where Yezd is.
- Neo-Persia.
- Pakistan's neighbor.
- Queen Farah's land.
- Major oil producer.
- Shiites' land.
- Where dates come from.
- Moslem country.
- Ex-shahdom
- Land in the news
- Locale of Tabriz
- Mashhad site
- Persia updated
- Rain anagram
- Shah's former realm
- Where Kashan is
- Where to find Qum
- Country bordering the Caspian.
- Where the Medes once lived.
- Kingdom of Western Asia.
- Scene of recent coronation.
- Shah's realm.
- Empress Farah's land.
- Country in 8 Down.
- Shah country.
- Tabriz's land
- U. N. member.
- Abadan's country
- Isfahan's country
- Land of the Peacock Throne
- Land on Caspian Sea
- Oil country
- Land of shahs
- Meshed's land
- Persepolis's land
- Rials are used here
- Farah's country
- Oil land
- Pahlavi's realm
- Where Shiraz is located
- Neighbor of U.S.S.R.
- Omar's country
- Pahlavi's country
- Pahlavi's home
- Part of 18 Across
- Asian kingdom
- Kerman's land
- Oil exporter
- CENTO member
- Oil-rich land
- Pahlavi's land
- Shah's domain
- Land south of the Caspian Sea
- Oil power
- Where Persepolis is
- Khomeini's domain
- One of earth's troubled spots
- U.S.S.R. neighbor
- Land bordering the Caspian
- Land bordering the Caspian Sea
- Land bordering the Persian Gulf
- Locale of the Zagros Mountains
- Mt. Demavend is its highest point
- Where the Gurgan flows
- Where the Safid Rud flows
- Adversary of Iraq
- Bani-Sadr's homeland
- Bani-Sadr's land
- Land Pahlevi left
- Modern name for Persia
- Peacock Throne locale
- Plateau of ___, in Asia
- Site of Mount Demavend
- Ahvaz is here
- Site of Qum
- Where the Shah ruled
- Foe of Iraq
- Home of 40 million
- Land of the Peacock Throne, once
- Meshed's locale
- Site of the Elburz Mts.
- Where Kurdish is spoken
- Country in SW Asia
- Medes' land, today
- Middle East hot spot
- Mideast hot spot
- Abadán is here
- Enemy of Iraq
- Home of many Shiites
- Home of some Baluchis
- Qum is here
- Zagros Mountains site
- Abadan's land
- Iraq foe
- Meshed is here
- Mideast trouble spot
- Iraq's foe
- Iraqi neighbor
- Middle East trouble spot
- SW Asian country
- Tabriz is here
- A neighbor of Turkey
- Land once called Persia
- Land west of Pakistan
- Mashhad's locale
- Turkish neighbor
- An OPEC land
- Earthquake site: June 21, 1990
- Former Peacock Throne site
- New Persia
- ___ my heedless ways: Dylan Thomas
- A neighbor of Kuwait
- Bam's locale
- Kashan is here
- Land of Qum
- Tabriz location
- Esfahan is here
- Esfahan's locale
- Pahlevi once ruled here
- Rafsanjani's land
- Where the Atrek flows
- Dr. Seuss's "If _____ the Zoo"
- Kerman local
- Kurdish home
- Major rug exporter
- Member of 35-Across
- Nation on the Strait of Hormuz
- Rafsanjani's country
- Revolution site of 1979
- Subject of Gary Sick's "All Fall Down"
- Farsi is spoken here
- Foe of 26-Down
- Side in a 1980's war
- ___-contra
- Country not in Rushdie's travel plans
- Imperial Guard's home
- Site of a 70's revolution
- Big oil supplier
- Modern Media
- Locale for 1999 solar eclipse watchers
- Mullah's home
- Rug source
- 1980 combatant
- Big rug exporter
- Carpet source
- Caspian Sea adjoiner
- Home of ancient Persepolis
- Kingdom until 1979
- Mujahedin base
- OPEC land
- 1979 hostage site
- Carpet place
- Land on the Strait of Hormuz
- Mullah's land
- 1979-81 hostage site
- Modern home of ancient Susa
- Home of many mullahs
- Modern locale of ancient Persepolis
- A theocratic republic
- Bit of Kurdistan
- Gulf land
- Modern locale of ancient 113-Across
- 1979 revolution locale
- Home of the Zagros Mountains
- Part of Bush's "Axis of Evil"
- Ayatollah's home
- It's about 200 miles south of Georgia
- Tehran's home
- Theodemocratic state
- Modern home of ancient Medes
- Setting of the 2007 animated film "Persepolis"
- Axis of evil land
- Ahmadinejad's country
- Bahai's birthplace
- First landfall north of Oman
- Home of Sharif University of Technology
- Modern home of the biblical Elam
- Charter member of 2-Down
- Country with a Guardian Council
- Host of the 1974 Asian Games
- Modern home of ancient Persepolis
- ___ (So Far Away) (1982 hit by A Flock of Seagulls)
- Theocratic state
- Where the Baha'i faith originated
- With 47-Across, it stopped flying to New York in 1979
- Big oil exporter
- Home of Sistan and Baluchestan
- It's bordered by three countries with "-stan" in their names
- Modern home of ancient Elam
- Setting for the 2012 film "Argo"
- Country subject to 2006 U.N. sanctions
- Country with a supreme leader
- Hassan Rouhani's land
- Home of Qom
- Home of the daily Hamshahri
- Home to Asia's highest volcano
- Land on the Persian Gulf
- Target of 2006 United Nations sanctions
- Big exporter of saffron
- Country across the Persian Gulf from the 29-Down
- Country bordering three "-stans"
- Country whose flag says "God is great" 22 times
- Dry country whose name is an anagram of wet weather
- Neighbor of 23-Across
- Home of many Zoroastrians
- Land with coasts on both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf
- One side of a 2015 nuclear agreement
- Place where Farsi is spoken
- Site of a 1953 C.I.A.-directed coup
- 10-Across's land
- Country whose name is also a two-word sentence
- It's on the Gulf of Oman
- It's south of the Caspian
- Locale of 10% of the world's oil reserves
- Modern-day home of the classical poet Hafez
- Only remaining home of the Asiatic cheetah
- Shiraz setting
- Longtime rival of Saudi Arabia
- Modern land in the ancient Sasanian Empire
- 1978-79 revolution site
- Country west of Afghanistan
- Country whose name can also be a full sentence
- Land with an ayatollah
- Modern-day locale of ancient Persepolis
- Country that borders three "-stans"
- Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q
- Home of about 10% of the world's oil reserves
- It's at the southern end of the Caspian Sea
- Where the biblical Esther and Daniel are purported to be buried
- Big exporter of pistachios
- Global center of Shia Islam
- Home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi
- Home of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi
- Land bordering Afghanistan
- Modern-day locale of the ancient Achaemenid Empire
- Site of 2022's "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests
- Where polo was invented
- Where zardozi embroidery is prevalent
- World's leading saffron producer
- Country north of the Persian Gulf
- Country whose name looks like something a marathoner might say
- Its flag has "Allahu Akbar" written 22 times
- Modern site of ancient Persepolis
- Modern-day site of ancient Persepolis
- Home of Kurdistan's easternmost regions
- Mideast country with a Supreme Leader
- Modern-day home of Persepolis
- Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally
- Bomb, Bomb ___ ("Barbara Ann" parody sung by John McCain)
- Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ___
- Susa's locale
- Tehran site
- Persian Gulf borderer
- Gulf country
- Gulf nation
- Country where Christiane Amanpour was raised
- Golshifteh Farahani's home country
- '80s fighters of 56-down
- It changed its name in 1935
- Prefix with "gate"
- President Khatami's land
- Whence Bahaism
- Where the rial rules
- Ethnically, it's about a quarter Azerbaijani
- Shiraz is there
- Home to the Zagros Mountains
- It was invaded on Sept. 22, 1980
- Noted sponsor of terrorism
- Where the Safavid Dynasty once ruled
- Isfahan locale
- Setting of the Oscar-winning film "A Separation"
- Its former hostages celebrated the 20th anniversary of their release
- A newspaper here ended a 20-year taboo by printing the U.S. flag
- Country in which 12-Across is located
- Hardliner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its parliament
- Its biggest student movement staged a sit-in supported by many parliament members
- Its lawmakers approved a draft bill that would prohibit police from campuses without permission
- Nation that backs Hizballah
- The State Department denies a "secret" Gore deal in which Russian arms were sent here
- The U.S. is easing sanctions on this country's luxury products
- They're backing 15-Across
- Shiraz site
- Birthplace of Bahaism
- Whence Baha'i
- Nation south of the Caspian Sea
- Nation bordering the Gulf of Oman
- Country whose capital is Tehran
- Country where Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is set
- Hit for A Flock of Seagulls
- Land near the Caspian
- Rafsanjani's home
- Until 1935, it was called Persia
- Urmia locale
- Home to the Ayatollah
- Meshed locale
- Qom locale
- Qum locale
- Shah's former domain
- Shiraz location
- Today's Persia
- It abuts Armenia
- Persian Gulf state
- Place avoided by Rushdie
- Qum location
- Country that got its current name in 1935
- Where Baha'ism began
- It was named in 1935
- Location of Qom
- Mashhad's country
- Muslim nation
- Place for dinars
- Setting for "Not Without My Daughter"
- Kerman country
- Republic on the Caspian
- Shah's old place
- Country in "rain"
- President Ahmadinejad's country
- Land where Farsi is spoken
- One place Kurdish is spoken
- Tehran is its largest city
- Tehran land
- Ayatollah territory
- Country by the Caspian
- Islamic nation
- Tehran locale
- Qom location
- Persepolis' land, today
- Shahdom of yore
- It was once Persia
- Kurdistan locale
- Mashhad locale
- Place using dinars
- 1980s war country
- 2015 nuke deal country
- Middle East republic
- Persia, once
- ___ so far away (Flock of Seagulls)
- Baha'i's setting
- Country since 1935
- Country south of Georgia
- Four-crescent flag country
- Isfahan's place
- Some Azerbaijanis live there
- Country once called Persia
- Country that anagrams to "rain"
- Country where "Argo" is set
- Country where rials are spent
- Middle East's second-largest country
- Persian is its official language
- Country between Turkey and Turkmenistan
- Country by the Caspian Sea
- Country known for rug weaving
- Country once ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty
- Country whose name could be parsed as a sentence
- Country with a large Shia population
- Persepolis' country
- Bandar Abbas' country
- Country where Yalda Night is celebrated
- Country where the Gate of All Nations is located
- Farsi is its official language
- Forugh Farrokhzad's country
- Kiarostami's country
- Maryam Mirzakhani's birth country
- Tehran Stock Exchange's country
- Country where Nowruz is celebrated
- Home to Tehran
- Country sharing three letters with its western neighbor
- Elnaz Rekabi's Middle Eastern country
- Scene of 2022 women's rights protests
- Country between the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf
- Country once known as Persia
- Middle Eastern home of the Pink Mosque
- Kashan's country
- Khomeinei's rival
- Today's home for 67 Across
- Bactria now
- Iraq's neighbor
- Tabriz is there
- Theocracy since 1979
- Where the Shah fell
- Pakistan abutter
- If ___ the Circus: Dr. Seuss
- Baha'i's home
- '80s war participant
- Khatami's country
- Persian spoken here
- Tehran's location
- Where to spend 60 Across
- It's north of Oman
- One of the Gulf states
- Theocratic republic
- Where shahs once ruled
- Home of Persepolis
- Lake Urmia's locale
- Home of Persepolis, now
- Pahlavi's domain
- Response to "What did you do when you saw the bear?"
- Lake Urmia locale
- Middle Eastern country
- Bain-Sadr was its president once
- Country led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Central Eurasian nation
- Dr. Seuss's "If ___ the Circus"
- Farsi speaker's land
- Neighbor of 1-Across
- Armenia's neighbor
- One of Turkey's neighbors
- If ___ the Zoo (Dr. Seuss)
- Where to find Tehran
- Muslim republic
- Party to a 2015 nuclear deal
- 1980s foe of Iraq
- 2015 nuke deal signatory
- Strait of Hormuz land
- 2015 nuclear deal participant
- 2015 nuke deal nation
- Scene of a 1979 overthrow
- Theocratic state since 1979
- Land bordering Turkmenistan
- Land including part of Kurdistan
- Revolutionary Guard nation
- Ayatollah's domain
- Carpet-exporting land
- Country south of the Caspian
- Iraq foe of the 1980s
- Nuke deal signer of 2015
- Saffron-producing Middle East land
- Country in Satrapi's "Persepolis"
- Country south of Azerbaijan
- Country that celebrates Sizdah Bedar
- Country that uses the Solar Hijri calendar
- Country where tahdig is eaten
- Country with a four-crescent emblem
- Neighbor of Turkey and Turkmenistan
- Saffron-producing country
- Asghar Farhadi's country
- Country that celebrates Nowruz
- Country that's the only remaining home to the Asiatic Cheetah
- Country where Maryam Mirzakhani was born
- Nasir al-Mulk Mosque's country
- Nasir ol-Molk Mosque's country
- Site of the Islamic Revolution of 1979
- Where Farsi is the national language
- Country that anagrams to a weather forecast
- Country that's home to Vakil Bazaar
- Country where Shohreh Aghdashloo was born
- Country with the Mahsa Amini protests
- Googoosh's country
- Jafar Panahi's country
- Maz Jobrani's birth country
- Shirin Ebadi's birth country
- 1980-88 war side
- Gulf of Oman borderer
- 1980 campaign issue
- Gulf of Oman land
- Mashhad's land
- '80s war side
- 1980s war side
- 1979 "Canadian Caper" country
- Country that can trace its history to the Proto-Elamite period
- Karaj's country
- Nation where the film "Taste of Cherry" is set
- Azadi Tower's nation
- Nation where many celebrate Nowruz
- Rafsanjani's nation
- President Ahmadinejad's nation
- Land east of the Persian Gulf
- One of OPEC's charter members
- Setting of Mount Damavand
- Site of the Elburz Mountains
- Mount Damavand location
- Nation formerly called Persia
- President Rouhani's nation
- Where the Karun River flows
- Its official language is Persian
- Nation between Iraq and Afghanistan
- Nation once ruled by a 70-Across
- 18th-largest country in the world
- Big pistachio producer
- Its nuclear program is the subject of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
- Nation north of the Strait of Hormuz
- President Rouhani's home
- Nation with a Caspian coast
- One of its provinces is Fars
- Country with a Revolutionary Guard
- Site of the Persepolis ruins
- Where 29-Down took place
- Ayatollah Khamenei's home
- Director Abbas Kiarostami's home country
- Its largest province is Kerman
- Land north of the Strait of Hormuz
- Nation bordering the Caspian
- Nation south of Azerbaijan
- President Rouhani's country
- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's country
- The Islamic Consultative Assembly is its legislature
- Country on a gulf
- Major producer of iron
- Nation north of the Persian Gulf
- Neighbor of Azerbaijan and Afghanistan
- Country with a Caspian coast
- It's a "theocratic republic," according to the CIA
- Its provinces include Qazvin and Qom
- Nation that celebrates Islamic Republic Day
