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It's a bit like the efforts of the Iranian government to force people to use the term "Persian Gulf" rather than "Arabian Gulf." They passed a law in 2010 that
by theobeers 8y ago
It's a bit like the efforts of the Iranian government to force people to use the term "Persian Gulf" rather than "Arabian Gulf." They passed a law in 2010 that was supposed to ban any international airline from Iranian airspace, if it referred to the body of water as the "Arabian Gulf" in its in-flight maps or other public displays.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/22/iran-airlines-persian-gulf https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/22/iran-airlines-...
- aaomidi 8y agoI don't think these are similar at all honestly
- schappim 8y agoHow so?
- darkpuma 8y agoBecause "Arabian Gulf", not "Persian Gulf" is the newspeak. Perhaps anti-Iranian bias (disturbingly common in the west these days) has colored your perception of this issue.
- theobeers 8y agoI’m a Persianist first and foremost, but I also spent time living in Oman, and it seems ludicrous to me that the legitimacy of the way that Gulf Arabs refer to the body of water bordering their countries (al-Khalīj al-‘Arabī, “the Arabian Gulf”) should be challenged. How could we possibly demand that one name or the other be used everywhere in the world?
- amiraliakbari 8y agoFrom Wikipedia: > The body of water is historically and internationally known as the "Persian Gulf". Some Arab governments refer to it as the "Arabian Gulf" or "The Gulf", but neither term is recognized internationally.