This study demonstrates the importance of metaphor in conveying concepts and identities in Iranian political discourse. The study is motivated by the abundance of figurative language and conceptual metaphors in political discourse as an intrinsic feature. The corpus consists of inaugural speeches of three presidents of Iran—Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Rouhani, and Ebrahim Raisi—all of which are available on the web at htpp://president.ir. The total corpus size is 19,023 words and consists of 10 inaugural speeches. The lexical units in the corpus have been identified and analyzed following the metaphor identification procedures of the Pragglejaz Group (2007) and Steen et al. (2010), the conceptual metaphor theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980), and the critical metaphor analysis introduced by Charteris-Black (Corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis. Springer, Hampshire/New York, 2004). As a result of the process of identifying the metaphor-related words in the texts, the role of metaphors in comprehending various abstract concepts is discussed. Building, journey, conflict, human body, light, and physical environment tend to be productive source domains for Iranian political discourse. (Source domains and conceptual metaphors are presented in small capitals following the model of Lakoff and Johnson (1980).) The analysis focuses on metaphorical linguistic expressions that manifest conceptual metaphors, such as politics is a journey, nation is a person, and abstract ideas are physical entities. Since metaphors are repetitive and indirect references to fundamental abstract concepts, they seem to be an effective tool in constructing a coherent political worldview, attracting public sympathy, and enhancing Iranian identity.