Hellenism Salesman
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Fingers crossed for a rework when Persia gets its own line!Sassanids straddle the line but are a good fit for Exploration Age IMO, and the gunpowder empire Safavids are a prime candidate for Third Age Iran IMO. If anything, I feel like later incarnations of Persia have been hobbled by Antiquity Persia being a pure combat civ, which is strange enough for the Achaemenids and clearly more tailored for their current segue into Mongols.
(Yes, I'm aware that we shouldn't look at things this way. No, I do not think that prevents Iran from getting the obvious treatment that China and India did.)