| Bani-Sadr's homeland | 24 |
| Ayatollah's country | 23 |
| Armenia's neighbor | 22 |
| Afghanistan's neighbor | 26 |
| "Axis of evil" land | 29 |
| Zagros Mountains country | 24 |
| Where they speak Farsi | 22 |
| Where the Safid Rud flows | 25 |
| Where the Qezel Owzan flows | 27 |
| Where the Gurgan flows | 22 |
| Where Teheran is the capital | 28 |
| Where Shiraz is located | 23 |
| Where shahs once ruled | 22 |
| Where Pashto is spoken | 22 |
| Where Baha'ism began | 24 |
| Where Baha'i was founded | 28 |
| Turkey is always next to it | 27 |
| Tehran is its largest city | 26 |
| Teheran is its largest city | 27 |
| Supreme Leader's nation | 27 |
| Strait of Hormuz nation | 23 |
| Strait of Hormuz country | 24 |
| Site of the Peacock Throne | 26 |
| Site of the Elburz Mts. | 23 |
| Site of the Elburz Mountains | 28 |
| Site of Persepolis, now | 23 |
| Site of Mount Demavend | 22 |
| Site of a 70's revolution | 29 |
| Shah's place, once | 22 |
| Shah's former realm | 23 |
| Setting of Mount Damavand | 25 |
| Revolutionary Guard country | 27 |
| Revolution land of '79 | 26 |
| Rafsanjani's country | 24 |
| Queen Farah's land | 22 |
| Qajar dynasty country, today | 28 |
| Plateau of ___, in Asia | 23 |
| Place avoided by Rushdie | 24 |
| Persia's current name | 25 |
| Persepolis' land, today | 27 |
| Pahlevi once ruled here | 23 |
| One of OPEC's founders | 26 |
| Neighbour of Afghanistan | 25 |
| Nation west of Afghanistan | 26 |
| Modern name for Persia | 22 |
| Modern home of ancient Susa | 27 |
| Modern home of ancient Medes | 28 |
| Modern home of ancient Elam | 27 |
| Middle East trouble spot | 24 |
| Medes' land, today | 22 |
| Land where Farsi is spoken | 26 |
| Land once called Persia | 23 |
| Land east of the Persian Gulf | 29 |
| Kurdish is spoken here | 22 |
| Its capital is Teheran | 22 |
| It's west of Afghanistan | 28 |
| It's south of the Caspian | 29 |
| It's south of Georgia? | 26 |
| It's north of Oman | 22 |
| It has a Supreme Leader | 23 |
| Imperial Guard's home | 25 |
| Host of the 1974 Asian Games | 28 |
| Home of the Zagros Mountains | 28 |
| Home of the daily Hamshahri | 27 |
| Home of Persepolis, now | 23 |
| Hassan Rouhani's land | 25 |
| Hassan Rouhani's country | 28 |
| Former Peacock Throne site | 26 |
| First landfall north of Oman | 28 |
| Farsi-speaking republic | 23 |
| Empress Farah's land | 24 |
| Emerging nuclear power | 22 |
| Election locale of 2009 | 23 |
| Elburz Mountains locale | 23 |
| Cyrus' realm, today | 23 |
| Country with a supreme leader | 29 |
| Country which was once Persia | 29 |
| Country next to Turkey | 22 |
| Country by the Caspian | 22 |
| Birthplace of polo, today | 25 |
| Bahai's birthplace | 22 |
| Ayatollah's domain | 22 |
| Ahmadinejad's homeland | 26 |
| A "-gate" opener | 26 |
| ___-Gate (Reagan-era scandal) | 29 |
| Tower Commission assignment | 27 |
| '80s political affair | 25 |
| Persian's descendant | 24 |
| Certain Persian Gulf native | 27 |
| Shah's subject, once | 24 |
| Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray | 28 |
| Neighbor of an Afghani | 22 |
| Mohammad Khatami, for one | 25 |
| Zoroastrian descendant | 22 |
| President Ahmadinejad, e.g. | 27 |
| One who comes from Qom | 22 |
| Neighbor of an Armenian | 23 |
| Native of Khomeini's land | 29 |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for one | 28 |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, e.g. | 25 |