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- The Arabian Sea's Gulf of ___
- Land where Farsi is spoken
- Where the rial rules
- Ahmadinejad's homeland
- Home of the Bahla Fort and nearby oasis
- Gulf nation with recent protests
- With 47-Across, it stopped flying to New York in 1979
- Majlis al Jinn cave site
- Theocratic state
- "__ (So Far Away)": 1982 hit for A Flock of Seagulls
- Farsi-speaking republic
- Mashhad is its second-largest city
- Arabian Peninsula kingdom
- Qum's land
- Small, oil-rich nation