| Neighbour of Iraq | 17 |
| Neighbor of Iraq | 16 |
| Nation with a Supreme Leader | 28 |
| Nation on the Gulf of Oman | 26 |
| Modern-day theocracy | 20 |
| Meshed's land | 17 |
| Meshed's country | 20 |
| Meshed setting | 14 |
| Mashhad's country | 21 |
| Land south of the Caspian Sea | 29 |
| Land on the Caspian Sea | 23 |
| Land bordering the Caspian | 26 |
| Lake Urmia's locale | 23 |
| Lake Urmia locale | 17 |
| Kurdish home | 12 |
| Khomeini's country | 22 |
| It was once ruled by a shah | 27 |
| It abuts Turkey | 15 |
| Isfahan's land | 18 |
| Home to the Zagros Mountains | 28 |
| Home of Persepolis | 18 |
| Gulf of Oman adjoiner | 21 |
| Gulf nation | 11 |
| Gulf country | 12 |
| Foe of Iraq | 11 |
| Farsi-speaking country | 22 |
| Farsi speaker's land | 24 |
| Esfahan's land | 18 |
| East Azerbaijan is a province in it | 35 |
| Dr. Seuss's "If ___ the Circus" | 45 |
| Country where Baha'i was founded | 36 |
| Country on the Persian Gulf | 27 |
| Country led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 34 |
| Country bordering the Caspian Sea | 33 |
| Contemporary Persia | 19 |
| Charter member of OPEC | 22 |
| Central Eurasian nation | 23 |
| CENTO member | 12 |
| Caspian land | 12 |
| Bit of Kurdistan | 16 |
| Birthplace of Baha'i | 24 |
| Bani-Sadr's homeland | 24 |
| Bain-Sadr was its president once | 32 |
| Azadi Stadium setting | 21 |
| Ayatollah's home | 20 |
| Ayatollah's country | 23 |
| Armenia's neighbor | 22 |
| Armenia neighbor | 16 |
| Ahvaz is here | 13 |
| Afghanistan's western neighbor | 34 |
| Afghanistan's neighbor | 26 |
| "Persepolis" setting | 30 |
| "Axis of evil" member | 31 |
| "Axis of evil" land | 29 |
| Zagros Mountains country | 24 |
| World's leading saffron-producing nation | 44 |
| Where Yazd is | 13 |
| Where to hear Farsi | 19 |
| Where to find Qum | 17 |
| Where they speak Farsi | 22 |
| Where the Shah ruled | 20 |
| Where the Shah fell | 19 |
| Where the Safid Rud flows | 25 |
| Where the rial rules | 20 |
| Where the Qezel Owzan flows | 27 |
| Where the Gurgan flows | 22 |
| Where the Baha'i faith originated | 37 |
| Where the Atrek flows | 21 |
| Where Teheran is the capital | 28 |
| Where Teheran is | 16 |
| Where Shiraz is located | 23 |
| Where shahs once ruled | 22 |
| Where Pashto is spoken | 22 |
| Where Kashan is | 15 |
| Where Isfahan is | 16 |
| Where Baha'ism began | 24 |
| Where Baha'i was founded | 28 |
| Where "dollars" are dinars | 36 |
| Vice-chair of the UN Disarmament Commission | 43 |
| Urmia locale | 12 |
| U.N. member since its inception | 31 |
| Turkish neighbor | 16 |
| Turkey is always next to it | 27 |
| Theodemocratic state | 20 |
| Theocratic state | 16 |
| Theocratic republic | 19 |
| Theocracy since 1979 | 21 |
| Tehran's place | 18 |
| Tehran's locale | 19 |
| Tehran's home | 17 |
| Tehran land | 11 |
| Tehran is its largest city | 26 |
| Teheran's place | 19 |
| Teheran's nation | 20 |
| Teheran is its largest city | 27 |
| Target of 2006 United Nations sanctions | 39 |
| Tabriz's land | 17 |
| Tabriz location | 15 |
| Tabriz is there | 15 |
| Tabriz is here | 14 |