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Welcome to Clueless #776, our informal weekly clue setting competition. The idea is to compose a cryptic clue to a given word or phrase. The winner of the previous week's competition both sets the word to be clued and judges the entries for the current week. The judge's decision is final and reasons may or may not be given at the judge's discretion. It is customary for the judge to donate a virtual prize to the winner.

Multiple entries may be submitted and new competitors are particularly welcome. Please give an explanation if you think it might help. Clues should be submitted by 6pm (UK time) on Wednesday March 4h.

This week's challenge uas got to be:-

IRAN (4)

Good luck!

Future setters should note that a complete list of previously used words on Clueless, Peer Review and Weekend Peer Review is available here: https://tinyurl.com/4dzss5np

God in in-country (4)

I made haste to site of illegal attack (4)

Badly, is how Khameini ran his country somewhat (4)

Current scene of conflict ensnaring Revolutionary Guards (4)

ensNARIng

or perhaps a grammatically more correct parse would be
gnIRANsne

Praise liberally, you’re not there at the moment (4)

praise* -> Persia, nowadays Iran

Persia holds back counterrevolutionaries (4)

State broadcast backs Islamic leader (4)

A right enigma, bungled, leaving game changed here, sadly (4)

( A R ENIGMA)* - (GAME)