Related Clues:

• Home of the Zagros Mountains
• Where Tehran is
• Persian Gulf country
• Where rials are spent
• Kurdistan's locale, in part
• Land of Ayatollahs
• Shah's old place
• Asian nation
• Oil-rich nation
• Arab country
• Dubai, for one
• Oman's peninsula
• Ayatollahs' land
• President Ahmadinejad 's nation
• Emerging nuclear power