Historical clue formulations

• Major exporter of pistachios — 2026-08-22
• Modern-day Persia — 2026-06-28
• World's largest country with a four-letter name — 2026-06-08
• Neighbor of Turkmenistan — 2026-05-24
• Country with many Farsi speakers — 2026-05-17
• Setting for the graphic novel series "Persepolis" — 2026-05-15
• Tehran's land — 2026-04-27
• Azerbaijan neighbor — 2025-11-21
• Founding member of 38-Down — 2025-10-31
• Country between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf — 2025-10-08
• Modern-day locale of the ancient Parthian Empire — 2025-04-04
• Setting for 2012's "Argo" — 2025-03-04
• Birthplace of Zoroastrianism, today — 2025-02-28
• Mashhad's country — 2024-11-24
• Country that uses the Jalali calendar rather than the Gregorian — 2024-11-15
• It's opposite Oman on the Gulf of Oman — 2024-09-15
• Home of Kurdistan's easternmost regions — 2024-08-25
• Modern-day home of Persepolis — 2024-08-22
• Mideast country with a Supreme Leader — 2024-08-19
• Tehran's land — 2024-05-27
• Neighbor of Turkey — 2024-03-18
• Tehran's land — 2023-11-28
• Country whose name looks like something a marathoner might say — 2023-09-19
• Oil-rich nation — 2023-07-25
• Modern site of ancient Persepolis — 2023-06-09
• Country north of the Persian Gulf — 2023-05-22
• Home of the poet Forugh Farrokhzad — 2023-02-26
• Its flag has "Allahu Akbar" written 22 times — 2023-01-12
• Home of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi — 2022-12-04
• Site of 2022's "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests — 2022-11-25
• Qom home — 2022-11-13
• Where polo was invented — 2022-11-12
• Tehran's home — 2022-10-16
• Big exporter of pistachios — 2022-09-04
• Modern-day locale of the ancient Achaemenid Empire — 2022-09-02
• Global center of Shia Islam — 2022-08-15
• Home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi — 2022-07-24
• World's leading saffron producer — 2022-07-22
• Land bordering Afghanistan — 2022-07-11
• Where zardozi embroidery is prevalent — 2022-05-28
• Neighbor of Afghanistan — 2022-04-26
• Nation on the Gulf of Oman — 2022-04-06
• Land south of the Caspian Sea — 2022-03-11
• Tehran's country — 2022-03-08
• Modern home of ancient Persepolis — 2021-12-01
• Home of many Zoroastrians — 2021-10-21
• Big exporter of saffron — 2021-07-18
• Land with coasts on both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf — 2021-07-06
• One side of a 2015 nuclear agreement — 2021-05-23
• Country across the Persian Gulf from the 29-Down — 2021-04-20