I am not sure about persian but there were a lot of arabic refrences in FF

-Ifrit means demon in arabic
-"Al Bhed" al means the and bhed(or bayt) means home
-Zidane is an arabic name but it mostly based on Zidane the soccer player who also arabian (he is originaly from Algeria)
-Faris means Knight/horsman in arabic
-Zanarkand is probably based on Samarkand a city in Iraq