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Middle East
Most of the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen) has a hot desert climate with extreme summer heat (often exceeding 40°C/104°F) and mild, far more comfortable winters; Oman's own mountainous regions offer some relief from the coastal heat.
The Levant (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel) has a Mediterranean climate along the coast — mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers — transitioning to desert conditions further inland and east.
Iran and Iraq both have significant continental climate variation: hot, dry summers and cold winters across much of the interior, with Iran's own mountain regions considerably cooler than its arid plateau and coastal areas.
Turkey has a genuine four-season climate, Mediterranean along its southern and western coasts and increasingly continental (colder winters, hot summers) moving into its central Anatolian interior.