Fled from Middle Eastern land with no leader (3)
I believe the answer is:
ran
'fled' is the definition.
(ran away)
'middle eastern land with no leader' is the wordplay.
'middle eastern land' becomes 'Iran' (country in the Middle East).
'with no leader' means to remove the first letter.
'iran' with its first letter removed is 'RAN'.
'from' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for ran that I've seen before include "Tore" , "Organised" , "Went fast" , "Was candidate" , "11 on foot" .)