Answer: IRAN
IRAN is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 584 times.
- Ayatollah's land
- Country not in Rushdie's travel plans
- Imperial Guard's home
- Persia, today
- Site of a 70's revolution
- Neighbor of Turkmenistan
- Teheran's land
- Tabriz's land
- Side in a 1980's war
- Teheran's nation
- Big oil supplier
- A "-gate" opener
- Where Baha'i began
- Modern Media
- Shah's land, once
- Where Farsi is spoken
- 1979 revolution site
- Mullah's home
- Where Qum is
- Neighbor of Pakistan
- Persia, now
- Rug source
- Where diners use dinars
- Locale for 1999 solar eclipse watchers
- Qom home
- Carpet source
- Home of ancient Persepolis
- Mujahedin base
- It's south of Georgia
- 1980 combatant
- OPEC land
- Qum home
- Kingdom until 1979
- Caspian Sea adjoiner
- Big rug exporter
- Carpet place
- OPEC member
- Mideast theocracy
- Persian Gulf land
- 1979 hostage site
- Land on the Strait of Hormuz
- Zagros Mountains locale
- Mullah's land
- 1979-81 hostage site
- Neighbor of Afghanistan
- Revolution site of 1979
- Turkey toucher
- Farsi-speaking land
- Modern home of ancient Susa
- Neighbor of Azerbaijan
- Neighbor of Armenia
- Meshed's land
- Modern locale of ancient Persepolis
- Where Tabriz is
- Turkmenistan neighbor
- Home of many mullahs
- Tehran's locale
- Tehran's land
- Its flag says "God is great" 22 times
- Gulf land
- Bit of Kurdistan
- Modern locale of ancient 113-Across
- A theocratic republic
- Shiraz locale
- 1979 revolution locale
- Modern-day theocracy
- Dr. Seuss's "If __ the Zoo"
- Part of Bush's "Axis of Evil"
- Part of Bush's Axis of Evil
- Mideast land
- Home of the Zagros Mountains
- Neighbor of Turkey
- It's about 200 miles south of Georgia
- Tehran's home
- Theodemocratic state
- Modern home of ancient Media
- Ayatollah's home
- Modern home of ancient Medes
- Setting of the 2007 animated film "Persepolis"
- Ahmadinejad's land
- Oil-rich land
- Modern-day Persia
- Ahmadinejad's country
- Modern home of the biblical Elam
- Home of Sharif University of Technology
- Teheran's country
- Home to many Kurds
- Founding member of OPEC
- Country for some Kurds
- Country on the Persian Gulf
- Shah's place, once
- Where Baha'i was founded
- Tabriz's country
- Where Khomeini ruled
- Land of Tabriz
- Qom's country
- Kuwait neighbor
- It was Persia in the past
- Heartland of the Persian Empire
- Strait of Hormuz adjoiner
- Where to find the Elburz Mountains
- Birthplace of Baha'i
- Pahlavi ruled there
- Persia today
- Pakistan neighbor
- Part of 47-Down
- Land in which Farsi is spoken
- Mideast country
- Persia, since 1935
- President Khatami's country
- Country on the Caspian
- Land on the Caspian
- Literally, "Land of the Aryans"
- Country which was once Persia
- "___ (So Far Away)" (1982 hit for A Flock of Seagulls)
- Scene of a 1979 revolution
- Tehran's place
- Khomeini's country
- Present-day Persia
- Where they speak Farsi
- Afghanistan neighbor
- One of the Persian Gulf States
- Nation once known as Persia
- Emerging nuclear nation
- Islamic republic
- Gulf of Oman adjoiner
- Caspian Sea nation
- Where Teheran is the capital
- Country renamed in 1935
- Azerbaijan neighbor
- Site of the Peacock Throne
- Persian Gulf power
- Coward's confession?
- Turkey neighbor
- Tabriz locale
- Current-day Persia
- Azerbaijan adjoiner
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's country
- Country on the Caspian Sea
- Middle East nation
- Persian Gulf country
- Nation bordering the Caspian Sea
- East Azerbaijan is a province in it
- Country across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman
- Where Pashto is spoken
- Charter member of 2-Down
- Modern home of ancient Persepolis
- Bahai's birthplace
- First landfall north of Oman
- Qum's country
- It borders the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman
- Where rials are spent
- Country across the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia
- Setting of the Dasht-i-Lut desert
- Meshed setting
- Teheran is its largest city
- ___-contra affair
- U.N. member since its inception
- Where the Qezel Owzan flows
- Setting of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
- Charter member of OPEC
- Country on the Gulf of Oman
- 1982 Flock of Seagulls hit subtitled "So Far Away"
- Member of Bush's "axis of evil"
- Revolutionary Guard country
- It has a Supreme Leader
- "Persepolis" setting
- Sistan and Baluchestan is its largest province
- "Axis of evil" land
- Caspian country
- Persia, nowadays
- Country where Baha'i was founded
- Strait of Hormuz country
- Shah's domain, once
- Caspian land
- Qom's land
- Former home of the Peacock Throne
- Zagros Mountains country
- Bani Sadr was its president in 1980-81
- Dr. Seuss' ''If __ the Zoo''
- Muslim state
- Armenia adjoiner
- Rug exporter
- Ayatollah's country
- Iraq neighbor
- Its New Year's Day is in March
- Nation on the Caspian
- Where Tehran is
- Kurdistan's locale, in part
- Shahs' land
- Tehran's country
- Persia, in the past
- Cyrus' realm, today
- Oil source
- OPEC country
- Caspian Sea land
- Revolution land of '79
- Modern Persia
- Election locale of 2009
- Former shahdom
- Qum's land
- Persia's current name
- Where to hear Farsi
- The rial world?
- Home to Lake Urmia
- Land on the Persian Gulf
- Dr. Seuss' "If __ the Circus"
- Side in a 1980s war
- Today's Persia
- Meshed locale
- Location of Qom
- Country in ''rain''
- 1979 hostage locale
- President Ahmadinejad's country
- Shah's old place
- Farsi-speaking nation
- Rafsanjani's home
- Republic on the Caspian
- Oil-rich country
- Persian Gulf state
- It abuts Armenia
- One place Kurdish is spoken
- Tehran land
- Dr. Seuss's "If ___ the Circus"
- Neighbor of 1-Across
- Farsi-speaking country
- Central Eurasian nation
- Farsi speaker's land
- Country led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Shah's realm, once
- Bain-Sadr was its president once
- Present Persia
- Persia, after 1935
- Home of Persepolis, now
- Response to "What did you do when you saw the bear?"
- Pahlavi's domain
- Lake Urmia locale
- Middle Eastern country
- Formerly Persia
- Land on the Caspian Sea
- Armenia neighbor
- Home of Persepolis
- Lake Urmia's locale
- Shah's former domain
- Rafsanjani's land
- Theocratic republic
- It's north of Oman
- Where shahs once ruled
- Persian Gulf nation
- Country with a Guardian Council
- Country divided in 111-Across
- OPEC founding member
- Caspian Sea country
- Where "dollars" are dinars
- Oil-rich nation
- Nation on the Gulf of Oman
- Tehran is its capital
- Tehran is its largest city
- Mideast nation
- Member of 22 Down
- Where qom is
- Tehran's nation
- Host of the 1974 Asian Games
- Qum country
- OPEC nation
- It abuts Turkey
- Nation on the Persian Gulf
- Land where Farsi is spoken
- Where the rial rules
- OPEC charter member
- With 47-Across, it stopped flying to New York in 1979
- Theocratic state
- "__ (So Far Away)": 1982 hit for A Flock of Seagulls
- Farsi-speaking republic
- Mashhad is its second-largest city
- Country in "rain"
- Dr. Seuss' "If ___ the Circus"
- Land south of the Caspian
- "--- All the Way Home"
- Qom's home
- Dr. Seuss' "If ___ the Zoo"
- "___ (So Far Away)": 1982 hit for A Flock of Seagulls
- Nation with severe penalties for being gay
- Persian's place
- "Bomb, Bomb ___" ("Barbara Ann" parody sung by John McCain)
- Iraq's foe for much of the 1980s
- Ahmadinejad's homeland
- Country by the Caspian
- Name derived from "Aryan"
- Armenia's neighbor
- OPEC co-founder
- "-gate" opener of the '80s
- See 21 Down
- "___ (So Far Away)" (1982 hit by A Flock of Seagulls)
- Where the Baha'i faith originated
- Elburz Mountains locale
- Tehran locale
- Islamic nation
- Ayatollah territory
- Esfahan's land
- Site of the Elburz Mountains
- Afghanistan's western neighbor
- Nation south of the Caspian Sea
- One of Turkey's neighbors
- Hormuz's nation
- Dr. Seuss' 'If ___ the Zoo'
- Dr. Seuss' 'If ___ the Circus'
- Dr. Seuss's 'If ___ the Zoo'
- Dr. Seuss's 'If ___ the Zoo'
- Dr. Seuss's 'If ___ the Circus'
- Boxer Barkley
- Persian Gulf borderer
- Tehran site
- Teheran locale
- Home of Sistan and Baluchestan
- 1974 Asian Games host
- Gulf country
- Land of lake Urmia?
- Land of lake Urmia?
- Shiite Islam is its state religion
- Modern home of ancient Elam
- Qom location
- World's leading saffron-producing nation
- Birthplace of polo, today
- Contemporary Persia
- Turkey is always next to it
- Big oil exporter
- Country that's an anagram of 49-Across
- Azadi Stadium setting
- Country bordering the Caspian Sea
- Setting of Mount Damavand
- Setting for the 2012 film "Argo"
- ___-Gate (Reagan-era scandal)
- Home to the Zagros Mountains
- It's bordered by three countries with "-stan" in their names
- Land with a red, white and green flag
- Mashhad's country
- Country with a supreme leader
- Arab nation
- Neighbour of Iraq
- Country on the Strait of Hormuz
- ___-Iraq War: '80s conflict
- Shi'ite state
- Home of Qom
- "If ___ the Zoo" (Dr. Seuss)
- "Argo" setting
- Target of 2006 United Nations sanctions
- Neighbour of Afghanistan
- Home to Asia's highest volcano
- Republic whose Supreme Leader is Ali Khamenei
- Home of the daily Hamshahri
- Gulf nation
- Persian Gulf republic
- Sunnite home
- Persepolis' land, today
- Hassan Rouhani's land
- Party in recent nuclear negotiations
- Country subject to 2006 U.N. sanctions
- Country whose name means "Land of the Aryans"
- Shahdom of yore
- President Rouhani's homeland
- Its capital is Teheran
- Nation in 7-Down
- Its capital is Tehran
- Qajar dynasty country, today
- Republic bordering the Caspian
- Country whose flag says "God is great" 22 times
- Shah's land
- Only nation with a Caspian and Indian Ocean coastline
- Homeland of Bahaism
- Where to find Tehran
- Place using dinars
- Rain anagram
- Where Kerman is
- Qom locale
- Kurdistan locale
- Place avoided by Rushdie
- Dry country whose name is an anagram of wet weather
- Major exporter of handmade carpets
- One of OPEC's founders
- Country bordering three "-stans"
- Neighbor of 23-Across
- Site of a 1953 C.I.A.-directed coup
- Setting for "Not Without My Daughter"
- Boxer Barclay
- Land of Isfahan
- President Rouhani's nation
- Iraq's neighbor
- Moslem nation
- Where some natives speak Azeri or Luri
- It was once Persia
- Where the Karun River flows
- Country in Argo
- Ahmadinejad's domain
- Iraq neighbour
- Party to a 2015 nuclear deal
- Persepolis site, today
- Shah's onetime domain
- Mashhad locale
- 6 Down neighbor
- Subject of Senator Tom Cotton's letter
- Persia no more
- Republic since 1979
- Seuss' "If ___ the Zoo"
- It was Persia
- Strait of Hormuz land
- 1980s war country
- 2015 nuke deal country
- Land on the Indian Ocean
- Its flag has four crescents
- Hassan Rouhani's country
- Shah's home
- 2015 nuke deal signatory
- Nation bordering Iraq
- Middle Eastern theocratic republic
- Land of Asia
- 10-Across's land
- Only remaining home of the Asiatic cheetah
- 2015 nuclear deal participant
- Second-largest Middle East country
- Turkey neighbour
- It's south of the Caspian
- Gulf republic
- 2015 nuke deal nation
- Theocracy since 1979
- Persian-speaking nation
- Land formerly ruled by a shah
- Shiraz setting
- Modern-day home of the classical poet Hafez
- Nation with the most natural-gas reserves
- Where shahs ruled
- Isfahan's land
- Persia, once
- Rafsanjani's country
- Teheran's nation
- Ahmadinejad's turf
- Shah's former land
- Country whose name is also a two-word sentence
- Part of Kurdistan is in it
- Locale of 10% of the world's oil reserves
- Earthquake site: June 21, 1990
- Maranjab Desert country
- U.S. occupation target in 2014's "RoboCop"
- Middle East republic
- Middle east trouble spot
- It's on the Gulf of Oman
- "___ so far away" (Flock of Seagulls)
- Isfahan's place
- New Persia
- Country south of Georgia
- Four-crescent flag country
- Mideast nation in a 2015 nuclear deal
- Country since 1935
- Tabriz location
- #2 Mideast nation in area
- Shahs' home
- Modern land in the ancient Sasanian Empire
- Revolutionary Guard nation
- Current name of Persia
- Land of qum
- Asian producer of nearly all of the world's saffron
- Baha'i's setting
- Some Azerbaijanis live there
- Land including part of Kurdistan
- Land bordering Turkmenistan
- Nation on the Caspian Sea
- Longtime rival of Saudi Arabia
- "If ___ the Zoo" (Seuss book)
- Country whose name can also be a full sentence
- "Reading Lolita in Tehran" setting
- Nasim's homeland on "whoopi"
- Country west of Afghanistan
- 1978-79 revolution site
- Where Teheran is capital
- Persian is its official language
- Middle East's second-largest country
- Shiraz's country
- Persia, presently
- Land with an ayatollah
- Neighbor of Iraq
- Country once called Persia
- Carpet-exporting land
- Country that anagrams to "rain"
- Country where rials are spent
- Iraq foe of the 1980s
- Shiraz's land
- Caspian sharer with 25 Across
- Country where "Argo" is set
- Ayatollah's domain
- Part of Xerxes I's realm, nowadays
- Seuss' "If ___ the Circus"
- Modern-day locale of ancient Persepolis
- It's swallowed by piranha
- Setting of the graphic novel "Persepolis"
- Home of about 10% of the world's oil reserves
- Part of Alexander's empire, today
- It's west of Afghanistan
- Country where Nowruz is celebrated
- Where the biblical Esther and Daniel are purported to be buried
- Teheran's county
- Where shahs once reigned
- Nation bordering Pakistan
- Iraq's eastern neighbor
- Country between Turkey and Turkmenistan
- Land between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf
- Nation on the Indian Ocean
- Country with a four-crescent emblem
- Country that celebrates Sizdah Bedar
- Neighbor of Turkey and Turkmenistan
- Country in Satrapi's "Persepolis"
- Country that uses the Solar Hijri calendar
- Persepolis ruins locale
- Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q
- Country that borders three "-stans"
- It's at the southern end of the Caspian Sea
- Where Shiraz is located
- Where "dollars" are rials
- Country whose name could be parsed as a sentence
- Maryam Mirzakhani's birth country
- Country with a large Shia population
- Country known for rug weaving
- East of Turkey
- Place where Farsi is spoken
- Country across the Persian Gulf from the 29-Down
- One side of a 2015 nuclear agreement
- Kiarostami's country
- Land with coasts on both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf
- Big exporter of saffron
- Country where the Gate of All Nations is located
- Country whose name ends in the same three letters as its capital
- Home of many Zoroastrians
- Country where Yalda Night is celebrated
- Bandar Abbas' country
- Farsi is its official language
- Where Farsi is the national language
- Country that celebrates Nowruz
- Land south of the Caspian Sea
- Country where Maryam Mirzakhani was born
- Site of the Islamic Revolution of 1979
- Country that outlawed alcohol in 1979
- Where zardozi embroidery is prevalent
- Setting of the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
- Land bordering Afghanistan
- Nation that follows the Solar Hijri calendar
- Nasir al-Mulk Mosque's country
- World's leading saffron producer
- Home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi
- Pakistan's neighbor
- Home country of Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi
- Global center of Shia Islam
- Country where Farsi is spoken
- Modern-day locale of the ancient Achaemenid Empire
- Big exporter of pistachios
- Nasir ol-Molk Mosque's country
- Asghar Farhadi's country
- Where polo was invented
- Site of 2022's "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests
- Home of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi
- Azadi Tower country
- Modern-day site of ancient Persepolis
- Its flag has "Allahu Akbar" written 22 times
- Googoosh's country
- Home of the poet Forugh Farrokhzad
- Persepolis" land, today
- Country north of the Persian Gulf
- Modern site of ancient Persepolis
- Country where Shohreh Aghdashloo was born
- Country with the Mahsa Amini protests
- Shirin Ebadi's birth country
- Country north of 40-Down
- Maz Jobrani's birth country
- Big pistachio exporter
- Country of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi
- Country whose emblem resembles a tulip
- Persian Gulf country that borders Armenia
- Middle eastern home of the pink mosque
- Persepolis locale
- Mideast country with a Supreme Leader
- Modern-day home of Persepolis
- Home of Kurdistan's easternmost regions
- It's opposite Oman on the Gulf of Oman
- Country that uses the Jalali calendar rather than the Gregorian
- Country home to Chogha Zanbil
- Possible response to "How did you get here so quickly?"