To track and improve where your brand appears in AI answers in Iran, the first thing that decides the playbook is which engines are even reachable: Iran is geo-restricted by OpenAI, so ChatGPT is not officially available and much AI access is via VPN. Cituna measures the engines that remain reachable and the Persian- and English-language answers that shape how a brand is seen to Iranian buyers reached from outside the country. ChatGPT is restricted or unavailable in Iran. Cituna measures your standing across the 6 of the seven engines Cituna tracks that are reachable here (Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode), in Persian (Farsi)-relevant queries, and joins it to Google Search Console so a change can be checked against real clicks rather than taken on trust.
Which AI engines matter in Iran
In Iran, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode are reachable and used, so those are the answers your brand can win or lose here. ChatGPT is restricted or unavailable in Iran.
Every one of the seven Cituna tracks is reachable here, so access is not the constraint in Iran, language coverage and citation strength are. That is the useful finding: the fixes that move the answer are on-page and off-page work, not engine access.
The language buyers actually query in
Buyers in Iran query in Persian (Farsi), and an AI engine answers in the language of the question. A brand whose only content is in another language is simply absent from that answer, however strong its site is, because the passage the engine would lift does not exist in the language it is answering in.
Google is the dominant traditional search engine here, and its index still seeds much of what the answer engines retrieve, so the two are not separate projects: earning the classic result and earning the AI answer in Iran are the same content, in the right language, made citable.
What is specific to Iran
The market-specific fact worth planning around: Iran is geo-restricted by OpenAI, so ChatGPT is not officially available and much AI access is via VPN. Cituna measures the engines that remain reachable and the Persian- and English-language answers that shape how a brand is seen to Iranian buyers reached from outside the country.
Run the check yourself before accepting anyone’s advice about Iran, including ours: ask the engines that are reachable here a question your buyer would actually type, in Persian (Farsi), and record which brands are named and which are absent. The answer for your category and your city inside Iran will differ from the general case in ways that change what is worth fixing.
How to track and improve AI visibility in Iran
Start by measuring where you stand across Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode for the queries that matter in Iran, on a schedule rather than once, because a single answer from any engine is a sample, not a position. Then act on the two levers that move it: Persian (Farsi)-native content that gives the engine a passage to lift, and citations on the third-party sources those engines already trust in this market.
Cituna tracks all seven engines, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, from the $39 Starter, and joins the result to Google Search Console so a movement in Iran can be checked against real clicks. The most useful output is usually not the score but the competitor list, because it tells you which brands are being named in your place in this market.
Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.