Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Persia - a theocratic islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil; involved in state-sponsored terrorism

Asian, Asiatic - a native or inhabitant of Asia

Farsi - a person of Iranian descent; "many Farsi emigrated to India near Bombay"

Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes - king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC)

Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes II - king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC)

Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian language - the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups

Avestan, Zend - an ancient Iranian language

Gathic - an ancient Iranian language

Farsi, Persian - the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms

Dari, Dari Persian - an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan

Tajiki, Tadzhik, Tajik - the Iranian language of the Tajik people that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan

Kurdish - an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia

Balochi, Baluchi - an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf

Pahlavi - the Iranian language of the Zoroastrian literature of the 3rd to 10th centuries

Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan - an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan

Ossete - a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia

Scythian - the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians