___ (So Far Away) (1982 hit by A Flock of Seagulls), 4 letters
--- All the Way Home, 4 letters
-gate opener of the '80s, 4 letters
'80s war participant, 4 letters
'If ___ the Circus': Dr. Seuss, 4 letters
Axis of Evil member, 4 letters
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ___, 4 letters
Bomb, Bomb ___ (Barbara Ann parody sung by John McCain), 4 letters
If ___ the Circus (Dr. Seuss work), 4 letters
If ___ the Circus (Seuss book), 4 letters
If ___ the Circus: Seuss, 4 letters
Not Without My Daughter setting, 4 letters
1974 Asian Games host, 4 letters
1979 hostage locale, 4 letters
1979 revolution locale, 4 letters
1979 revolution site, 4 letters
1980 campaign issue, 4 letters
1982 Flock of Seagulls hit subtitled So Far Away, 4 letters
1982 hit for Flock of Seagulls, 4 letters
A Flock of Seagulls hit, 4 letters
A Flock of Seagulls hit ___ (So Far Away), 4 letters
A Flock of Seagulls' biggest hit, 4 letters
A newspaper here ended a 20-year taboo by printing the U.S. flag, 4 letters
A theocratic republic, 4 letters
Afghanistan neighbor, 4 letters
Afghanistan's western neighbor, 4 letters
Ahmadinejad's country, 4 letters
Ahmadinejad's homeland, 4 letters
Ali Khamenei's land, 4 letters
Asia's Plateau of ___, 4 letters
Ayatollah territory, 4 letters
Ayatollah's country, 4 letters
Azadi Stadium setting, 4 letters
Azerbaijan adjoiner, 4 letters
Azerbaijan neighbor, 4 letters
Baha'i's country of origin, 4 letters
Bain-Sadr was its president once, 4 letters
Bani Sadr was its president in 1980-81, 4 letters
Bani-Sadr's homeland, 4 letters
Before 1935 it was Persia, 4 letters
Birthplace of Baha'i, 4 letters
Birthplace of Bahaism, 4 letters
Birthplace of polo, today, 4 letters
Caspian Sea adjoiner, 4 letters
Caspian Sea country, 4 letters
Central Eurasian nation, 4 letters
Charter member of OPEC, 4 letters
Condemner of Rushdie, 4 letters
Contemporary Persia, 4 letters
Country across the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia, 4 letters
Country across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman, 4 letters
Country by the Caspian, 4 letters
Country for some Kurds, 4 letters
Country in the RAIN?, 4 letters
Country led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 4 letters
Country mentioned in Alan Jackson's Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), 4 letters
Country not in Rushdie's travel plans, 4 letters
Country of novelist Jalal Ali Ahmad, 4 letters
Country on the Caspian Sea, 4 letters
Country on the Gulf of Oman, 4 letters
Country on the Persian Gulf, 4 letters
Country renamed in 1935, 4 letters
Country that got its current name in 1935, 4 letters
Country where Baha'i was founded, 4 letters
Country which was once Persia, 4 letters
Country whose traditional folk music is called musiqi asil, 4 letters
Country with a Guardian Council, 4 letters
Coward's confession, 4 letters
Cyrus' realm, today, 4 letters
Dasht-i-Lut location, 4 letters
Dr. Seuss If ___ the Zoo, 4 letters
Dr. Seuss' If ___ the Circus, 4 letters
Earthquake site of '90, 4 letters
Earthquake site: June 21, 1990, 4 letters
East Azerbaijan is a province in it, 4 letters
Elburz Mountains locale, 4 letters
Election locale of 2009, 4 letters
Embassy takeover site, 4 letters
Emerging nuclear nation, 4 letters
Emerging nuclear power, 4 letters
Ethnically, it's about a quarter Azerbaijani, 4 letters
Farsi is spoken here, 4 letters
Farsi speaker's land, 4 letters
Farsi-speaking country, 4 letters
Farsi-speaking land, 4 letters
Farsi-speaking nation, 4 letters
Farsi-speaking republic, 4 letters
First landfall north of Oman, 4 letters
Flock of Seagulls song, 4 letters
Former country of the Pahlavis, 4 letters
Former domain of the Shah, 4 letters
Former home of the Peacock Throne, 4 letters
Former Peacock Throne site, 4 letters
Founding member of OPEC, 4 letters
Gulf of Oman adjoiner, 4 letters
Gulf of Oman borderer, 4 letters
Hardliner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its parliament, 4 letters
Heartland of the Persian Empire, 4 letters
Hit for A Flock of Seagulls, 4 letters
Home of ancient Persepolis, 4 letters
Home of many mullahs, 4 letters
Home of Persepolis, now, 4 letters
Home of Sharif University of Technology, 4 letters
Home of Sistan and Baluchestan, 4 letters
Home of the Zagros Mountains, 4 letters
Home to the Ayatollah, 4 letters
Host of the 1974 Asian Games, 4 letters
Imperial Guard's home, 4 letters
Iraq's foe for much of the 1980s, 4 letters
It borders the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman, 4 letters
It changed its name in 1935, 4 letters
It has a Supreme Leader, 4 letters
It shooed it's shah?, 4 letters
It was invaded on Sept. 22, 1980, 4 letters
It was named in 1935, 4 letters
It was once ruled by a shah, 4 letters
It was Persia in the past, 4 letters
It's about 200 miles south of Georgia, 4 letters
It's south of Georgia, 4 letters
It's south of the Caspian, 4 letters
Its biggest student movement staged a sit-in supported by many parliament members, 4 letters
Its capital city is Tehran, 4 letters
Its capital is Teheran, 4 letters
Its capital is Teheran [35.40 N, 51.26 E], 4 letters
Its flag says God is great 22 times, 4 letters
Its former hostages celebrated the 20th anniversary of their release, 4 letters
Its Independence Day is April 1 (no foolin'), 4 letters
Its national anthem begins Upwards on the horizon rose the Eastern Sun, 4 letters
Its New Year's Day is in March, 4 letters
Its official religion is Shia Islam, 4 letters
Kurdistan overlaps part of it, 4 letters
Kurdistan's locale, in part, 4 letters
Land east of the Persian Gulf, 4 letters
Land in which Farsi is spoken, 4 letters
Land near the Caspian, 4 letters
Land of the Aryans, literally, 4 letters
Land of the Peacock Throne, 4 letters
Land on the Caspian, 4 letters
Land on the Caspian Sea, 4 letters
Land on the Persian Gulf, 4 letters
Land on the Strait of Hormuz, 4 letters
Land south of the Caspian, 4 letters
Land where Farsi is spoken, 4 letters
Light heavyweight Barkley, 4 letters
Lineman Shar Pourdanesh's homeland, 4 letters
Literally, Land of the Aryans, 4 letters
Locale for 1999 solar eclipse watchers, 4 letters
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's country, 4 letters
Mashhad is its second-largest city, 4 letters
Media setting, in modern times, 4 letters
Member of Bush's axis of evil, 4 letters
Middle East country, 4 letters
Middle East republic, 4 letters
Middle East theocracy, 4 letters
Middle Eastern country, 4 letters
Mideastern country that declared war on Germany in 1943, 4 letters
Modern home of ancient Elam, 4 letters
Modern home of ancient Medes, 4 letters
Modern home of ancient Persepolis, 4 letters
Modern home of ancient Susa, 4 letters
Modern home of the biblical Elam, 4 letters
Modern locale of ancient Persepolis, 4 letters
Modern-day location of Parthia, 4 letters
Modern-day theocracy, 4 letters
Mount Damavand locale, 4 letters
A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia, 4 letters
Iran was the core of the ancient Persian Empire and was known as Persia until 1935, 4 letters
Craziness in Tehran?, 9 letters
Insider trading criminal in the Middle East?, 10 letters
Pets in modern-day Persia?, 15 letters
___ Affair (1980s scandal involving arms sales), 10 letters
1980s political scandal, 10 letters
Ollie North's '80s affair, 10 letters
Subject of 1987 Congressional hearings, 10 letters
1979-81 hostage situation, 10 letters
Asian joins European, 9 letters
Mideast Olympic marathoner's claim?, 11 letters
'80s political affair, 8 letters
1980s political scandal, 8 letters
North-ern exposure?, 8 letters
Political scandal of the '80s, 8 letters
Tower Commission assignment, 8 letters
Abbas Kiarostami, for one, 5 letters
Another name for Farsi, 5 letters
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for one, 5 letters
Ayatollah Khomeini was one, 5 letters
Azerbaijani neighbor, 5 letters
Baha'i adherent, probably, 5 letters
Caspian region resident, 5 letters
Certain Middle Easterner, 5 letters
Certain OPEC minister, 5 letters
Certain Oriental rug maker, 5 letters
Certain Persian Gulf native, 5 letters
Certain Zoroastrian, 5 letters
Christiane Amanpour, e.g., 5 letters
Elburz Mountains dweller, 5 letters
Farsi speaker, perhaps, 5 letters
Farsi-speaker, often, 5 letters
Follower of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 5 letters
Former Shah subject, 5 letters
From Shiraz or Tehran, 5 letters
From Tehran or Tabriz, 5 letters
From Tehran, old-style, 5 letters
Hashemi Rafsanjani, for one, 5 letters
He may come from Qom, 5 letters
I raced one Persian (5), 5 letters
Islamic Republic Day observer, 5 letters
Khamenei or Khatami, e.g., 5 letters
Kharg Island resident, 5 letters
Like many a Bollywood star, 5 letters
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, e.g., 5 letters
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for one, 5 letters
Mohammad Khatami, for one, 5 letters
Neighbor of a Turkman, 5 letters
Neighbor of an Afghan, 5 letters
Neighbor of an Armenian, 5 letters
Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray, 5 letters
One who calls Qom home, 5 letters
One who comes from Qom, 5 letters
OPEC minister, perhaps, 5 letters
Persian Gulf resident, 5 letters
Persian's descendant, 5 letters
Present-day Persian, 5 letters
President Ahmadinejad, e.g., 5 letters
Reza Shah Pahlavi, for one, 5 letters
Tabriz resident, variantly, 5 letters
Who breathes the air in Qum?, 5 letters
Zoroastrian descendant, 5 letters
A native or inhabitant of Iran, 5 letters
Azerbaijani neighbor, 7 letters
Characteristic of Tehran, 7 letters
Christiane Amanpour, while growing up, 7 letters
Dweller on the Caspian, perhaps, 7 letters
Farsi speaker, probably, 7 letters
Indo-European language group, 7 letters
Language family that includes Kurdish, 7 letters
Like most players of the musical instruments dohol and tonbak, 7 letters
Like President Ahmadinejad, 7 letters
Member of a modern theocracy, 7 letters
Mohammad Khatami, for one, 7 letters
One who gets their fingers dirty during elections, 7 letters
Shah Pahlevi, for one, 7 letters
The modern Persian language spoken in Iran, 7 letters
A native or inhabitant of Iran, 7 letters
Andre Agassi, for one, 15 letters
China is the biggest customer of this Mideast export, 10 letters
Contents of some imported barrels, 10 letters
Japan and China are its biggest importers, 10 letters
Much of it is shipped via the Strait of Hormuz, 10 letters
Mountains near Teheran, 12 letters
Certain Gulf State residents, 8 letters
Readers of the newspaper Hamshahri, 8 letters
Residents of Meshed, 8 letters
Some Caspian Sea denizens, 8 letters
Asian child actor?, 11 letters
'80s Middle East combatants, 6 letters
Ahmadinejad's people, 6 letters
Dwellers on the Strait of Hormuz, 6 letters
Many Shiite Muslims, 6 letters
Modern-day Persians, 6 letters
Pahlavi and Khomeini, 6 letters
Persians, presently, 6 letters
Revolutionaries of 1980, 6 letters
Some Kurdish speakers, 6 letters
Some Pashto speakers, 6 letters
They may come from Qom, 6 letters
Tehran: Pulled a prank and ___, 15 letters
When ___ the hilltop... (Bob Dylan lyric), 6 letters
Middle East energy crisis?, 12 letters
Storm in Southwest Asia?, 8 letters
Teheran grocery worker?, 10 letters
___, Therefore I Am: Dennis Miller book, 5 letters