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I published one article for national (7)

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iranian

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'national' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'i published one article' is the wordplay.
'published' becomes 'ran' (running is a kind of publishing).
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'article' becomes 'an' (English indefinite article).
'i'+'ran'+'i'+'an'='IRANIAN'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for iranian that I've seen before include "Khamenei or Rouhani, say" , "From Tehran, perhaps?" , "from the Middle East" , "Native of modern Persia" , "Foreign national" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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