| Supreme Leader's nation | 27 |
| Subject of Gary Sick's ''All Fall Down'' | 60 |
| 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 Qum | 11 |
| Site of Persepolis, now | 23 |
| Site of Mount Demavend | 22 |
| Site of a 70's revolution | 29 |
| Sistan and Baluchestan is its largest province | 46 |
| Side in a 1980s war | 19 |
| Shiraz location | 15 |
| Shiite Islam is its state religion | 34 |
| Shahs' land | 15 |
| Shahs' country | 18 |
| Shahdom of yore | 15 |
| Shah's place, once | 22 |
| Shah's old place | 20 |
| Shah's former realm | 23 |
| Shah country | 12 |
| Setting of the Dasht-i-Lut desert | 33 |
| Setting of the 2007 animated film "Persepolis" | 56 |
| Setting of Mount Damavand | 25 |
| Setting of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" | 47 |
| Setting for the 2012 film "Argo" | 42 |
| Setting for ''Not Without My Daughter'' | 55 |
| Rouhani's nation | 20 |
| Rials are used here | 19 |
| Revolutionary Guard country | 27 |
| Revolution land of '79 | 26 |
| Republic whose Supreme Leader is Ali Khamenei | 45 |
| Republic bordering the Caspian | 30 |
| Rafsanjani's country | 24 |
| Qum's country | 17 |
| Qum location | 12 |
| Qum locale | 10 |
| Qum home | 8 |
| Qum country | 11 |
| Queen Farah's land | 22 |
| Qom location | 12 |
| Qajar dynasty country, today | 28 |
| President Rouhani's homeland | 32 |
| President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's land | 40 |
| President Ahmadinejad's nation | 34 |
| President Ahmadinejad's country | 35 |
| President Ahmadinejad 's nation | 35 |
| Plateau of ___, in Asia | 23 |
| Place using dinars | 18 |
| Place for dinars | 16 |
| Place avoided by Rushdie | 24 |
| Persian-speaking land | 21 |
| Persian Gulf borderer | 21 |
| Persia's current name | 25 |
| Persia, in the past | 19 |
| Persia updated | 14 |
| Persepolis's land | 21 |
| Persepolis' land, today | 27 |
| Peacock Throne locale | 21 |
| Party in recent nuclear negotiations | 36 |
| Part of Bush's Axis of Evil | 31 |
| Part of Bush's "Axis of Evil" | 43 |
| Pahlevi's domain | 20 |
| Pahlevi once ruled here | 23 |
| Pahlavi's land | 18 |
| Pahlavi's home | 18 |
| OPEC co-founder | 15 |
| Only nation with a Caspian and Indian Ocean coastline | 53 |
| One of OPEC's founders | 26 |
| One of OPEC's charter members | 33 |
| One of earth's troubled spots | 33 |
| Omar's country | 18 |
| Oil-rich nation | 15 |
| Oil power | 9 |
| Oil exporter | 12 |
| New Persia | 10 |
| Neighbour of Afghanistan | 25 |
| Nation with severe penalties for being gay | 42 |
| Nation west of Afghanistan | 26 |
| Nation that's home to Persepolis | 36 |
| Nation south of the Caspian Sea | 31 |
| Nation on the Strait of Hormuz | 30 |
| Name derived from "Aryan" | 35 |
| Muslim nation | 13 |
| Mullah's land | 17 |
| Mullah's home | 17 |
| Mujahedin base | 14 |
| Mt. Demavend is its highest point | 33 |
| Moslem nation | 13 |
| Modern name for Persia | 22 |
| Modern home of the biblical Elam | 32 |
| Modern home of ancient Susa | 27 |
| Modern home of ancient Persepolis | 33 |
| Modern home of ancient Medes | 28 |
| Modern home of ancient Elam | 27 |
| Mideast trouble spot | 20 |
| Mideast theocracy | 17 |
| Mideast nation that borders the Caspian Sea | 43 |
| Middle East trouble spot | 24 |