From time to time, I read An Emirati's Thoughts blog. A post dated on 26th of Dec 09 called “While this happens ..” dragged my attention but what dragged it more is a comment to this topic that was post by Jassim.
“While this happens…” talks about the name of the gulf, is it the Arabian Gulf as I & most of the Arabs wish or is it the Persian Gulf as the Iranian & most of the world calls it.
Thought most of the nations live around the Gulf are Arabs the Iranians claim that the Persian Gulf was named this way many years ago when Persia was a superpower. Jassim does seem to have a support to the Iranians as they want to call it the Persian Gulf. He says “the name is not the issue as long as power rules by the end of the day, power is not always about war, fight and conflict sometimes it's just history and dominance.” On the other hand if it is the matter of being a superpower then we should call it the Islamic Gulf as islam ruled this place over a thousand year.
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“While this happens…”
Our Iranian Friend's Grandest battles are:Calling the Gulf "Persian"
Did you know that the manipulation of the internet to serve Persian Ultra-Nationalism has permeated to wikipedia ? Supposedly the UAE plays in a cup called the "Gulf cup of Nations" while as you read in the link, the Iranian Government has protested to the UAE regarding this fact.
Of course, in typical Iranian style since our friend the Shah: Kick around the people, and then rile them with ultranationalist sentiments and let them vent their anger at the Arabs. And even regular Iranians that hate the regime are claiming that the people kicking the others around in the street are Arabs. The Ultra-Nationalistic lying to ones-self is a sick symptom of denial and "exporting" the causes of your problems to the Arabs.
The Gulf remains Arabian until Iran ends its illegal occupation of the 3 Islands.
