| Cyrus' realm, today | 23 |
| Current-day Persia | 18 |
| Country with imposed sanctions | 30 |
| Country with a supreme leader | 29 |
| Country with a Guardian Council | 31 |
| Country whose name means "Land of the Aryans" | 55 |
| Country whose flag says "God is great" 22 times | 57 |
| Country which was once Persia | 29 |
| Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally | 121 |
| Country that got its current name in 1935 | 41 |
| Country that can trace its history to the Proto-Elamite period | 62 |
| Country subject to 2006 U.N. sanctions | 38 |
| Country not in Rushdie's travel plans | 41 |
| Country next to Turkey | 22 |
| Country in SW Asia | 18 |
| Country in ''rain'' | 35 |
| Country by the Caspian | 22 |
| Country across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman | 45 |
| Country across the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia | 49 |
| Charter OPEC member | 19 |
| Caspian Sea nation | 18 |
| Caspian Sea adjoiner | 20 |
| Carpet source | 13 |
| Carpet place | 12 |
| Birthplace of polo, today | 25 |
| Big rug exporter | 16 |
| Big oil supplier | 16 |
| Bani Sadr was its president in 1980-81 | 38 |
| Bam's locale | 16 |
| Bahai's birthplace | 22 |
| Bactria now | 12 |
| Azerbaijan adjoiner | 19 |
| Ayatollahland | 13 |
| Ayatollah's domain | 22 |
| Ayatollah territory | 19 |
| Armenia adjoiner | 16 |
| An OPEC land | 12 |
| Ahmadinejad's homeland | 26 |
| Adversary of Iraq | 17 |
| Abadan's country | 20 |
| Abadán is here | 17 |
| A theocratic republic | 21 |
| A neighbor of Turkey | 20 |
| A neighbor of Kuwait | 20 |
| A "-gate" opener | 26 |
| 1982 Flock of Seagulls hit subtitled "So Far Away" | 60 |
| 1980 combatant | 14 |
| 1979-81 hostage site | 20 |
| 1979 "Canadian Caper" country | 39 |
| 1974 Asian Games host | 21 |
| "If ___ the Zoo" (Dr. Seuss) | 38 |
| "Bomb, Bomb ___" ("Barbara Ann" parody sung by John McCain) | 79 |
| "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ___" | 41 |
| "--- All the Way Home" | 32 |
| "___ my heedless ways": Dylan Thomas | 46 |
| "___ (So Far Away)" (1982 hit by A Flock of Seagulls) | 63 |
| "__ (So Far Away)": 1982 hit for A Flock of Seagulls | 62 |
| __-Iraq War: '80s conflict | 30 |
| ___-Gate (Reagan-era scandal) | 29 |
| Subject of 1987 Congressional hearings | 38 |
| Scandal during the Reagan administration | 40 |
| Ollie North's '80s "affair" | 45 |
| Affair of the 1980s | 19 |
| Reagan-era scandal | 18 |
| Reagan era scandal | 18 |
| Tower Commission assignment | 27 |
| North-ern exposure? | 19 |
| North-centered storm? | 21 |
| '80s political affair | 25 |
| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for one | 31 |
| Tehran native | 13 |
| Farsi speaker | 13 |
| Teheran resident | 16 |
| Tabriz native | 13 |
| Teheran native | 14 |
| Tabriz resident | 15 |
| Rial spender | 12 |
| Qum native | 10 |
| Shiraz native | 13 |
| Qom resident | 12 |
| Tehran resident | 15 |
| Qom native | 10 |
| Persian, today | 14 |
| Meshed native | 13 |
| Tabriz citizen | 14 |
| Native of Teheran | 17 |
| Dinar spender | 13 |
| Turk's neighbor | 19 |
| Shiraz resident | 15 |
| Pahlavi, e.g. | 13 |
| Certain OPEC minister | 21 |
| Persians, today | 15 |
| Persian's descendant | 24 |
| Native of Tabriz | 16 |
| Afghan's neighbor | 21 |
| Turk neighbor | 13 |
| Qum resident | 12 |
| Native of Shiraz | 16 |
| Native of Mashhad | 17 |
| Mashhad native | 14 |