| He may come from Qum | 20 |
| He comes from Qum | 17 |
| Hassan Rowhani, for one | 23 |
| Hassan Rouhani, for one | 23 |
| From Tehran or Tabriz | 21 |
| From Shiraz or Tehran | 21 |
| From Shiraz | 11 |
| From Isfahan | 12 |
| From Esfahan | 12 |
| Former Shah subject | 19 |
| Follower of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 31 |
| Farsi speaker, perhaps | 22 |
| Dweller in Qum | 14 |
| Citizen of Tehran | 17 |
| Citizen of Teheran | 18 |
| Citizen of Tabriz | 17 |
| Citizen of Kerman | 17 |
| Citizen of Jask | 15 |
| Certain Zoroastrian | 19 |
| Certain Oriental rug maker | 26 |
| Caspian Sea native | 18 |
| Caspian region resident | 23 |
| Bam native | 10 |
| Ayatollah, for one | 18 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini, for one | 27 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini was one | 26 |
| Armenian neighbor | 17 |
| Apt rhyme for Bani | 18 |
| Another name for Farsi | 22 |
| An Azerbaijani | 14 |
| Afghani's neighbor | 22 |
| Abbas Kiarostami, for one | 25 |
| Abadan resident | 15 |
| Abadan man | 10 |
| "Argo" extra | 22 |
| Like some Kurds | 15 |
| Tehran teen, e.g. | 17 |
| Tehran inhabitant | 17 |
| Subject of the Shah | 19 |
| Persian, presently | 18 |
| Persian, now | 12 |
| One who gets their fingers dirty during elections | 49 |
| One from Qom | 12 |
| Of Tehran | 9 |
| Meshed resident | 15 |
| Member of a modern theocracy | 28 |
| Like the Baha'i faith, by origin | 36 |
| Like much oil | 13 |
| Like most Kurds | 15 |
| Like Christiane Amanpour, by upbringing | 39 |
| Language family that includes Kurdish | 37 |
| Kurdish or Pashto | 17 |
| Iftar celebrant | 15 |
| From Shiraz, say | 16 |
| From Qazvin, e.g. | 17 |
| Christiane Amanpour, while growing up | 37 |
| An Indo-European language | 25 |
| Ahvaz native | 12 |
| Ahmadinejad, for example | 24 |
| Often-sanctioned Middle East export | 35 |
| Much of it is shipped via the Strait of Hormuz | 46 |
| Middle East import frequently put under sanctions | 49 |
| Major Chinese energy source | 27 |
| Japan and China are its biggest importers | 41 |
| China is the biggest customer of this Mideast export | 52 |
| Tehran natives | 14 |
| Rial spenders | 13 |
| Mideast people | 14 |
| Teheran natives | 15 |
| Tabriz residents | 16 |
| Pakistanis' neighbors | 25 |
| Modern Persians | 15 |
| Farsi speakers | 14 |
| Yezd natives | 12 |
| They may come from Qom | 22 |
| Tehran inhabitants | 18 |
| Tabriz natives | 14 |
| Some Pashto speakers | 20 |
| Some call Qom home | 18 |
| Shiraz natives | 14 |
| Residents of Tabriz | 19 |
| Rasht residents | 15 |
| Rafsanjani and Bani-Sadr | 24 |
| Qom inhabitants | 15 |
| Noted rug weavers | 17 |
| Natives of Meshed | 17 |
| Natives of Isfahan | 18 |
| Natives of Esfahan | 18 |
| Modern-day Persians | 19 |
| Meshed population | 17 |
| Meshed natives | 14 |
| Many Shiites | 12 |
| Many Shiite Muslims | 19 |
| Many Farsi speakers | 19 |
| Dwellers on the Strait of Hormuz | 32 |
| Azeri speakers | 14 |
| Ahmadinejad's people | 24 |
| Afghan neighbors | 16 |
| Storm in Southwest Asia? | 24 |
| "__, Therefore I Am": Dennis Miller book | 50 |