Bani-Sadr's homeland
Else clues• ___-Contra
• ___-contra affair
• ___ (So Far Away) (1982 hit by A Flock of Seagulls)
• --- All the Way Home
• -gate opener of the '80s
• '80s foe of Iraq
• '80s war participant
• '80s war side
• 'If ___ the Circus': Dr. Seuss
• Axis of evil land
• Axis of Evil member
• Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ___
• Bomb, Bomb ___ (Barbara Ann parody sung by John McCain)
• If ___ the Circus (Dr. Seuss work)
• If ___ the Circus (Seuss book)
• If ___ the Circus: Seuss
• Not Without My Daughter setting
• Persepolis setting
• 1974 Asian Games host
• 1979 hostage locale
• 1979 hostage site
• 1979 revolution locale
• 1979 revolution site
• 1980 campaign issue
• 1980 combatant
• 1980-88 war side
• 1980's foe of Iraq
• 1982 Flock of Seagulls hit subtitled So Far Away
• 1982 hit for Flock of Seagulls
• A -gate opener
• A Flock of Seagulls hit
• A Flock of Seagulls hit ___ (So Far Away)
• A Flock of Seagulls' biggest hit
• A newspaper here ended a 20-year taboo by printing the U.S. flag
• A theocratic republic
• Abadan locale
• Abadan's land
• Afghanistan neighbor
• Afghanistan's western neighbor
• Ahmadinejad's country
• Ahmadinejad's homeland
• Ahmadinejad's land
• Ali Khamenei's land
• An OPEC land
• Armenia adjoiner
• Armenia neighbor
• Asia's Plateau of ___
• Asian country
• Asian republic
• Ayatollah land
• Ayatollah territory
• Ayatollah's country
• Ayatollah's home
• Ayatollah's realm
• Azadi Stadium setting
• Azerbaijan adjoiner
• Azerbaijan neighbor
• Bactria now
• Baha'i's country of origin
• Baha'i's home
• Bahai home
• Bahai's birthplace
• Bain-Sadr was its president once
• Bani Sadr was its president in 1980-81
• Before 1935 it was Persia
• Big oil exporter
• Big oil supplier
• Big rug exporter
• Birthplace of Baha'i
• Birthplace of Bahaism
• Birthplace of polo, today
• Bit of Kurdistan
• Boxer Barkley
• Capital is Teheran
• Carpet place
• Carpet source
• Caspian country
• Caspian land
• Caspian Sea adjoiner
• Caspian Sea country
• Caspian Sea land
• Caspian Sea nation
• Caviar exporter
• CENTO member
• Central Eurasian nation
• Charter member of OPEC
• Condemner of Rushdie
• Contemporary Persia
• Country across the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia
• Country across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman
• Country by the Caspian
• Country for some Kurds
• Country in rain
• Country in the RAIN?
• Country led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Country mentioned in Alan Jackson's Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)
• Country not in Rushdie's travel plans
• Country of novelist Jalal Ali Ahmad
• Country on the Caspian Sea
• Country on the Gulf of Oman
• Country on the Persian Gulf
• Country renamed in 1935
• Country that got its current name in 1935
• Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally
• Country where Baha'i was founded
• Country which was once Persia
• Country whose traditional folk music is called musiqi asil
• Country with a Guardian Council
• Coward's confession
• Current-day Persia
• Cyrus' realm, today
• Dasht-i-Lut location
• Dr. Seuss If ___ the Zoo
• Dr. Seuss' If ___ the Circus
• Earthquake site of '90
• Earthquake site: June 21, 1990
• East Azerbaijan is a province in it
• Elburz Mountains locale
• Election locale of 2009
• Embassy takeover site
• Emerging nuclear nation
• Emerging nuclear power
• Esfahan locale
• Esfahan's land
• Ethnically, it's about a quarter Azerbaijani
• Farsi is spoken here
• Farsi speaker's land
• Farsi-speaking country
• Farsi-speaking land
• Farsi-speaking nation
• Farsi-speaking republic
• Finisher's song?
• First landfall north of Oman
• Flock of Seagulls song
• Former country of the Pahlavis
• Former domain of the Shah
• Former home of the Peacock Throne
• Former Peacock Throne site
• Former shahdom
• Formerly Persia
• Founding member of OPEC
• Gulf country
• Gulf land
• Gulf of Oman adjoiner
• Gulf of Oman borderer
• Gulf of Oman land
• Gulf war country
• Hamadan's land
• Hardliner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its parliament
• Heartland of the Persian Empire
• Hit for A Flock of Seagulls
• Home of ancient Persepolis
• Home of many mullahs
• Home of Persepolis
• Home of Persepolis, now
• Home of Sharif University of Technology
• Home of Sistan and Baluchestan
• Home of the Zagros Mountains
• Home to Lake Urmia
• Home to many Kurds
• Home to some Kurds
• Home to the Ayatollah
• Host of the 1974 Asian Games
• Imperial Guard's home
• Iraq neighbor
• Iraq's foe for much of the 1980s
• Islamic nation
• Islamic republic
• It abuts Armenia
• It abuts Turkey
• It borders the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman
• It changed its name in 1935
• It has a Supreme Leader
• It shooed it's shah?
• It was invaded on Sept. 22, 1980
• It was named in 1935
• It was once ruled by a shah
• It was Persia in the past
• It's about 200 miles south of Georgia
• It's north of Oman
• It's S of Georgia
• It's south of Georgia
• It's south of the Caspian
• Its biggest student movement staged a sit-in supported by many parliament members
• Its capital city is Tehran
• Its capital is Teheran
• Its capital is Teheran [35.40 N, 51.26 E]
• Its flag says God is great 22 times
• Its former hostages celebrated the 20th anniversary of their release
• Its Independence Day is April 1 (no foolin')
• Its lawmakers approved a draft bill that would prohibit police from campuses without permission
• Its national anthem begins Upwards on the horizon rose the Eastern Sun
• Its New Year's Day is in March
• Its official religion is Shia Islam
• Kashan's country
• Kerman country
• Kerman local
• Khatami's country
• Khatami's land
• Khomeinei's rival
• Khomeini's country
• Khomeini's land
• Kingdom until 1979
• Kurdish country
• Kurdish home
• Kurdistan overlaps part of it
• Kurdistan's locale, in part
• Kuwait neighbor
• Lake Urmia locale
• Lake Urmia's land
• Land east of the Persian Gulf
• Land in the news
• Land in which Farsi is spoken
• Land near the Caspian
• Land of Isfahan
• Land of Qom
• Land of Tabriz
• Land of the Aryans, literally
• Land of the Peacock Throne
• Land on the Caspian
• Land on the Caspian Sea
• Land on the Persian Gulf
• Land on the Strait of Hormuz
• Land south of the Caspian
• Land where Farsi is spoken
• Light heavyweight Barkley
• Lineman Shar Pourdanesh's homeland
• Literally, Land of the Aryans
• Locale for 1999 solar eclipse watchers
• Locale of Tabriz
• Location of Qom
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's country
• Major rug exporter
• Mashhad is its second-largest city
• Mashhad locale
• Mashhad site
• Mashhad's country
• Mashhad's land
• Media setting, in modern times
• Media, today
• Member of Bush's axis of evil
• Meshed locale
• Meshed setting
• Meshed's country
• Meshed's land
• Middle East country
• Middle East nation
• Middle East republic
• Middle East theocracy
• Middle Eastern country
• Mideast country
• Mideast land
• Mideast nation
• Mideast theocracy
• Mideastern country that declared war on Germany in 1943
• Modern home of ancient Elam
• Modern home of ancient Medes
• Modern home of ancient Persepolis
• Modern home of ancient Susa
• Modern home of the biblical Elam
• Modern locale of ancient Persepolis
• Modern Media
• Modern Persia
• Modern-day location of Parthia
• Modern-day Persia
• Modern-day theocracy
• Moslem nation
• Mount Damavand locale
• Mujahedin base
• A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia
• Iran was the core of the ancient Persian Empire and was known as Persia until 1935
• Rich in oil