Persian Gulf will remain Persian Gulf

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

The Persian Gulf (Persian: خلیج فارس, Arabic: الخليج الفارسي) is an extension of the Gulf of Oman in between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. This inland sea of some 233,000 km² is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz, and its western end is marked by the major river delta of Arvand-Rud , which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris. It has an area of about 241,000 square kilometres. Its length is 989 kilometres separating mainly Iran from Saudi Arabia with the shortest divide of about 56 kilometres in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Persian name for this body of water was borrowed by almost all the old languages (including Greek) as - The Persian Gulf - and has been in use everywhere since ancient times, for it signifies the first major nation-state in that area, namely the Persian Empire (now Iran). In the 1960s, with the pathetic rise of Arab nationalism, Arab countries began to call The Persian Gulf, the "A****** Gulf". In general, Arabs have the tendency to claim places and things that do not belong to them through out history. As recent as Darfur, Sudan (led to genocide), Israel (decades of Arab terrorism) or now the Persian Gulf (bribe national geographic) and many more (Google Maps).

However, the Iranian government led two resolutions in the United Nations to officially recognize that body of water as the Persian Gulf. The first announcement was made through the document UNAD, 311/Qen on March 5, 1971 and the second was UNLA 45.8.2 (C) on August 10, 1984.

Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are (clockwise, from the southeast): United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia (due to invasion and annexation of part of UAE territory), Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest, and Iran in the north. The Persian Gulf and its coastal areas are the largest single source of crude oil and related industries dominate the region. Various small islands lie within the Persian Gulf.

The Persian Gulf was among the scenes of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted from 1980 to 1988, as with each side attacking the other's oil tankers. In 1991 the Persian Gulf again was the background for a Persian Gulf War as Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back during what is now predominantly known as the Persian Gulf War, despite the fact that this conflict did not focus primarily on the Persian Gulf.

iranian.ws

[Persian_Saudi]

'Since the 1960s with the rise of Arab nationalism (Pan-Arabism), starting with Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab Republic of Egypt, some Arab countries, including the ones bordering the Persian Gulf, have adopted the term "Arabian Gulf" (in Arabic: الخلیج العربي al-khalīj al-ʿarabī) to refer to the waterway. This is controversial and not commonly used outside of the Arab world, nor is it recognized by the United Nations and other international organizations. The United Nations on many occasions has requested that only "Persian Gulf" be used as the official and standard geographical designation for the body of water. "Arabian Gulf" is also an ancient name for the Red Sea. Hecataeus (472 to 509 B.C.) can be stated where Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf (Red Sea) have been clearly shown. Also a map has remained from Herodotus, the great Greek historian (425-484 B.C.) which introduces Red Sea as the Arabian Gulf.

In the world map of Diseark (285-347 B.C.) too, Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf have been clearly distinct. At the same time, many maps and deeds prepared up to the 8th century by the historians such as Arrian Hecataeus, Herodotus, Hiparek, Claudius Batlamious, Krats Malous,…… and in the Islamic period, Khwārizmī, Abou Yousef Eshagh Kandi, Ibn Khordadbeh, Batani (Harrani), Mas'udi, Balkhi, Estakhri, Ibn Houghal, Aboureyhan Birouni and others, mention that there is a wide sea at south of Iran named “Pars Sea”, “Pars Gulf”, “Fars Sea”, “Fars Gulf”, “Bahre Fars”, “Sinus Persicus” and “Mare Persicum” and so on. In a book, named “Persilus Aryateria”, the Greek traveller of the 1st century A.D. has called the Red Sea as Arabian gulf; the Indian ocean has been named Aryateria Sea; the waters at Oman Coast is called Pars Sea; Barbarus region (between Oman and Yemen coast are called belonging to Pars, and the Gulf located at south side of Iran is named: Persian Gulf. By describing the water body, the life of Persians living at both sides have also been confirmed.

Most recently, at the Twenty-third session of United Nation in March-April 2006, the name 'Persian Gulf' was confirmed again as the legitimate and the official term to be used by members of United Nation'

so basicly its the Arab leaders fault...they are lieing to there people with all this arabian gulf non sence

[Persian_Saudi]

I dont know why arabs love to change names....my father when he migrated to Saudi it was a most that he had to change his family to obtain a saudi passport sadly he accepted..my real family name is Rezaei, but now in the saudi passport its Abulhassan..they even changed my grandfather's name in the passport from foolad to foad..sadly all the persian community here in saudi have new family names..the reason behind changing our names is to erase our hiratige make us believe that we are arabs, but thank God u know us persians we are sooo proud of our origin more than any race in the world. whats funny is my frist cousin still doent have the saudi nationality so we both have diffrent family names lol

[Joonevar]

I dont know why arabs love to change names....my father when he migrated to Saudi it was a most that he had to change his family to obtain a saudi passport sadly he accepted..my real family name is Rezaei, but now in the saudi passport its Abulhassan..they even changed my grandfather's name in the passport from foolad to foad..sadly all the persian community here in saudi have new family names..the reason behind changing our names is to erase our hiratige make us believe that we are arabs, but thank God u know us persians we are sooo proud of our origin more than any race in the world. whats funny is my frist cousin still doent have the saudi nationality so we both have diffrent family names lol

Dear friend, names don't matter. Its what is inside you that is important. As Shakespear said, a rose by any other name is still a rose. So if you feel Iranian, you are Iranian. There is a lot of good in Arab culture also so its best to take the good of both cultures and be proud of your heritage.

[Afshin]

Dear Persian_Saudi, welcome to PFC, I am delighted to see Iranians such as yourself never forgetting their Persian roots and background.