Posted on 02/22/2010 2:24:56 PM PST by blam
Iran To Arabs: It's "Persian Gulf" Not "Arabian Gulf" -- If You Call It "Arabian Gulf," You're Toast
Business Insider
Feb. 22, 2010, 3:24 PM
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Airlines not referring to the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula as the Persian Gulf will be banned from Iranian airspace, the transport minister told local media Monday.
The warning was directed specifically toward the airlines of neighboring Gulf Arab countries who have a history of referring to the body of water as the "Arabian Gulf."
"The airlines of the southern Persian gulf countries flying to Iran must use 'Persian Gulf' on their flight monitors," Hamid Behbahani told the IRAN daily.
Airlines ignoring the warning would be banned from Iranian airspace, while repeat offenders would have their planes grounded in Iran and "the companies' flight permits to Iran canceled."
The report said Iran expelled a Greek flight attendant from the private Iranian airline, Kish Air, for using "Arabian Gulf" on a monitor over the weekend.
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Shouldn’t that be “Iranian” Gulf??? I thought Persia was the old name imposed by the western colonial powers.
Shaitan Gulf
Or the Gulf Between Civilization and islam?
“Arabian Gulf??? I keeeeel you!!!”
We should have a naming contest.
How about “the oily armpit of the world”?
Sounds like a cheap way to acquire spare parts.
Not surprising. Persians get offended when you call them Arabs.
God must want us to have all that oil.
Why else would he put those nasty people on top of it?
During the Bush Administration, the U.S. Navy made a point of referring to it in official pronouncments as the Arab Gulf. I wonder if that’s changed.
But this sudden insistence by the Iranians that everybody does it their way sounds like they are feeling their oats and/or looking for an excuse to do something really stupid.
The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.
Sheesh.
In L.A., these Iranians are always throwing a hissy fit when I call them Iranians. “It’s Persian..” they always say to me. They were more incensed when I told them my favorite movie was “300”.
Ever noticed how much like a monkey amanutjob looks like? It’s like Planet of the Apes all over again.
“Persians get offended when you call them Arabs.”
Well, yeah.
Since our carriers are the ones out there keeping it safe, perhaps it should be called the American Gulf.
My 1983 edition of the “TIMES ATLAS OF THE OCEANS” shows it as the “Persian Gulf”.
So it makes the Persians angry? Good! I must make a note to start calling it the “Arabian Gulf.”
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