Fertile crescent
The Persian Gulf is not in the Mediterranean area.
It is not a gulf; it is known as the Mediterranean Sea.
Mesopotamia
Those are two totally separate waterforms . The Mediterranean is between Africa and Europe and has nothing to do with the Persian Gulf which is far to the east.
Persia, today called Iran.
The Red Sea.
yes yes it does
If you are looking for the crossword clue, try Oran or Sidra.
Fertile Crescent.
The Strait of Hormuz. And it's the Persian Gulf; Persia is the old name for Iran.
The body of water separating Iran from Saudi Arabia is called the Persian Gulf. There has been a push by the Arabs to have the Gulf renamed the Arab Gulf (as it is called "al-Khalij al-3arabi" in Arabic). No non-Arab nation has adopted this nomenclature.
The Fertile Crescent, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It used to be called Mesopotamia.