Country in Iran having disheartened Slovak, unfortunately (3,5)
I believe the answer is:
sri lanka
'country' is the definition.
(Sri Lanka is an example)
'iran having disheartened slovak unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'having' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'disheartened' means to remove the middle letters.
'unfortunately' indicates anagramming the letters (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'slovak' with its centre removed is 'slak'.
'iran'+'slak'='iranslak'
'iranslak' is an anagram of 'SRI LANKA'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for sri lanka that I've seen before include "cricket side" , "Island by Southern India" , "Former Ceylon" , "Asian country, originally the Arabic Serendib or Serendip" , "land" .)