IRAN

Farsi is spoken here

• ___-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

• Bani-Sadr's homeland

• 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 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