Historical clue formulations

• Title derived from the Persian for "king" — 2026-04-10
• Onetime Persian title — 2025-07-30
• Common surname in Pakistan — 2024-11-19
• Exile of 1979 — 2024-08-06
• Former Iranian leader — 2021-09-20
• Old Iranian leader — 2021-06-08
• Bygone potentate — 2021-05-14
• Bollywood's ___ Rukh Khan — 2020-05-09
• Ousted Iranian leader — 2020-04-07
• ___ Jahan, leader who commissioned the Taj Mahal — 2019-12-20
• Ousted Iranian ruler — 2019-10-28
• Persian word from which "chess" comes — 2019-01-19
• Political figure granted asylum by Anwar Sadat — 2018-10-16
• Onetime leader of Iran — 2018-10-08
• 1979 exile — 2018-03-18
• Bygone title — 2017-11-05
• Ruler deposed in 1979 — 2017-09-12
• ___ Jahan, leader who commissioned the Taj Mahal — 2017-09-03
• Persian leader — 2017-07-04
• Exiled leader of 1979 — 2017-06-27
• Former Iranian leader — 2017-02-13
• Leader from the House of Pahlavi — 2017-01-03
• Noted exile of 1979 — 2016-09-29
• Onetime royal — 2016-07-14
• Onetime Iranian leader — 2016-01-24
• Ruler's title from which the word "chess" is derived — 2016-01-09
• Exiled leader of Iran — 2015-12-14
• Former Iranian ruler — 2015-10-12
• Exile of 1979 — 2015-04-14
• Ruler toppled in 1979 — 2015-01-14
• World leader in 1979 headlines — 2015-01-11
• Pre-ayatollah leader — 2014-12-09
• Notable 1979 exile — 2014-11-14
• Deposed leader of 1979 — 2013-09-24
• Bygone head of Iran — 2013-06-24
• Old Iranian leader — 2012-06-26
• 1970s exile — 2012-06-17
• Ruler deposed in 1979 — 2011-05-10
• Deposed Iranian ruler — 2011-03-01
• Bygone sovereign — 2010-11-11
• Persian monarch — 2010-04-14
• Any member of the Safavid dynasty — 2010-04-03
• Onetime Asian autocrat — 2010-02-18
• Onetime C.I.A.-backed foreign leader — 2009-07-31
• Deposed Iranian — 2008-03-10
• Bygone potentate — 2008-01-24
• Ayatollah's predecessor — 2007-09-10
• Ruler toppled in 1979 — 2007-08-16
• Bygone monarch — 2007-08-05
• Literally, "king" — 2006-06-24