study: The Persian Gulf. This key water body is subject to a serious naming disp

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study: The Persian Gulf. This key water body is subject to a serious naming dispute. Some say the water body should be called the Persian Gulf, others say it should be the Arabian Gulf, while others say its name should simply be The Gulf. Why the dispute? It's all about national pride. Do some investigation and then provide an informed report back on the details behind this dispute. Yes, it's about national pride, but pride among who, where, and why? Mosul eppo dia * Tehran Karkük SYRIA Arak mascus IRA o IRAN De Ficto Ahváz An NäsiriyahAbidan Al Ba?rah WAT Bishehr Shiraz ük Hafar al Batin Bandar Abbás HSil Persian Al Jubay Gulf Ad Dammáma Manama Buraydah Dhahrane QATAR Dubai Doha Abu Dhabi Yanbu Medina SAUDI Riyadh UNITED ARABo EMIRATES ARABIA

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The dispute behind the naming of Persian Gulf: Before Arab Nationalism, countries were together in the Gulf region. In historical records, Persian Gulf was the name given to it. Persia was the countries present in the gulf before. But now the Persian region includes only Iran and other nations were segregated after Arab revolution. People from Arab nations claim that the Arabian Gulf was the name supposed to be given to the present Persian Gulf but Red sea has got the name in the history as Arabian Gulf and therefore was difficult to name the Persian Gulf as Arabian Gulf. Arab Nationalism: Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar started discussing about the Arab ideology and Arab nationalism except Iran. This ideology played a major role in dispute behind the naming of Persian Gulf. Iran’s claim: Iran is the only non-Arab country and it claims that the Persian Gulf is the name from history and it is not necessary to reject it and to continue the identity of it. Arab countries claim: Arab countries prefer to use “gulf” or “Arabian Gulf” because Persian Gulf includes not only the gulf area but also the other parts around it.

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