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| It is Persian not Arabian Gulf: Iran candidate |
| 2009-06-12 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi said that if he is elected in Friday's upcoming elections his first priority would be to establish good relations with neighboring Gulf states, but insisted that the body of water between them was Persian and not Arabian. Karroubi said in an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya that "Arabs refer to it as 'Arabian Gulf,' while we say 'Persian Gulf' because we believe that this is a fact." Karroubi added that the United Nations officially acknowledges that it is the "Persian Gulf" and said that it was an undisputable historical fact. "We have all the documents that prove it. The name the Persian Gulf was first used by the people of Bushehr 100 years before the birth of Christ," he told Al Arabiya. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 And it's the Gulf of Texas damn it! TX has a battleship and aircraft carrier. What have the Mexicans got? |
| Posted by: ed 2009-06-12 13:32 |
| #1 He has a point, I wonder receptive the folks in the UN buildings in New Amsterdam will be. After all it was Native American land a hundred years before the birth of Christ, then Dutch, then British, then American. Its' the way of the world. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-06-12 13:13 |