Here’s a further sign of the slowly shifting power balance, away from nation-states to non-state actors: Iran’s foreign ministry has now taken it upon itself to censure Google Earth’s use of the term “Arabian Gulf” alongside “Persian Gulf”:
“Raising such issues about a historically-documented and undeniable term is illegal,” [foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali] Hosseini told the Mehr News Agency.
The Islamic Iran Participation Party also condemned the move, saying it will raise suspicion that Google Earth managers and experts are “knowingly or unknowingly” following certain power’s efforts to provoke conflict in the Persian Gulf region.
In a declaration released on Monday, the party described the action as insulting the intelligence of the international community.
This is undoubtedly the next volley in this escalating war of wills, after Google posted its “primary, common, local” naming doctrine to its public policy blog. Without mentioning that particular gulf, the doctrine spells out precisely why the term “Arabian Gulf” isn’t going to be removed anytime soon: It’s the primary common local name for the Gulf in several countries bordering it.
Hi Google,
Interestingly, I should mention this here, that you were using the name “Persian Gulf” for the mentioned body of water from the beginning, simply because it was named like that for thousands of years, and well, you had this policy for some time now! Changing the name to something else or adding some names apparently can be done by I don’t know some clever lawyers or so?!
So you added the name Arabian G..f to the map! well you did the same thing Sadam Hussein was trying to do :), actually he printed out the new map of the region which has Arabian G..F as the name of the water you mentioned, No Israel of course! and even Arabia as the name of the “Khozestan”statae in Iran!
A bit of history for you; This name “Arabian G..f” came after Jamal Abdul-Nasser from Egypt called for Pan-Arabic movement, surprisingly before that “Arabian G..f” was the other name of the Red Sea!
My fear is about the way you “Change” the names! looks like anytime we turn our head we loose a piece of our history to … some one. Although we are trying to stay alive against all the anti-Persian incidents (culturally, religiously, politically, geographically, and etc!) it certainly is another big hit.
Don’t get me wrong, you are NOT the evil! You are by far the best provider of the great services to internet users (at least it is my idea!) it’s just not fair to see “you” do it to us.
Deeply saddened by your decision,
H — Persian Iranian,
most people surrounding the arabian gulf speak arabic. even on the iranian soil the people living along the arabian gulf cost either speack arabic or ara origanily arabs. thats for sure!
on the iranian side the people that speak arabic are called ajam, while people on the arabian peninsula area are arabs or ajams.
so I think google policy is right in naming it the arabian gulf in this case.
thanx
So by going by H’s philosophy, Israel should be accepted as the legitimate name for what was known a day as Palestine?
Isn’t it H?
You see that the backwarded Pan Nasserian-Arab ideology of trying to change facts, just as like as Hitler tried for a so called German Land, can be a double sword which will deserve arabs rather than helping them.
Try to be correct in life, please….
For any other ignorant or opportunist, please read this well documented fact sheet:
http://daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_2385.shtml
Also check this petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/sos02082/petition.html
Thanks
Sorry, I meant the one having psoted under the so-called Arabian Gulf name and not H.
What a shame?
When Arabs will learn to abandon integrist ideas of all kind?
Hi Google
Iranians applaud Google for its services better than Yahoo.
But Google , you can not change the History !
If you can, try to rename Atlantic Ocean to Arabian Ocean !
Shame on you and others who like to change history and pride of a nation.
Arabs perhaps have given you million dollars to change the name Persian Gulf, but they do not know that they can not buy history against money.
Persian Gulf
Hi Again, (this one is long! sorry!)
I’m not surprised to see that comment from our Arab friend :) stating everybody talks Arabic and …., well, not to go to unwise conversations BUT, I have to say this and can’t just keep it to myself, I am Iranian, we as Iranians have many different tribes. different races, different aialect and many different other things, we are very proud of it, we beleive as Iranian, this is our way of living and our stregnth, for many many years (from the day of pPersian empire till today) we have beilived in this and this is the reason we are still exist as a nation, we have the nationality, and this is the most important thing, then we are from differrent tribes like Lors, Kurds, Mazani, Balouch, Azari (Turks) even Arabs (and more), addition to that we have different believes! Zorostarian, Musilm, Christian, Jewish (and more), this is strong and beutiful, I am a Iranian Iranian Muslim Brown guy! my friend is Iranian Kurd Zoarastarian white guy! but we are all Iranians and that I important. In case of south and north of Persian Gulf, in the north we are all Iranians, who are known as Persian to outside world (mostly!) in the Sounth we have what? no offence to any of the Arab states but these states invented by British policy after WWII ! of course except Bahrain and Oman, which Bahrain was part of Iran and they were called Persian as well!
So to you my Arab friend, there is a wish to have a Arab nation! but unfortunately this never happened, mostly bcuz you people hate each other more than your enemies! you have your palestinians (Arabs) dieing while you are having fun in europe! when part of us got occopied in the war with Iraq, which by the way it was the Iranian state with most Iranian Arab citizens, we all went there and fought and took it back, all of us! Persians, Turks, Lors, Arabs… every Iranian, can you understand that?
The Persian Gulf name is part of our history, culture and pride, and believe me with some “new happened” building in the south of it you can’t change the name and it’s history, I know you will try but you just don’t know who is your friend and who is your enemy…
I think Google added A-Gulf name to its map based on some politics going on these days, or maybe they just don;t know the geography! that is very common in America! and google owner are not much a part of it apparently.
The internation name of this body of water is Persian Gulf, has been and is and will be, google is just mistaking and ruining it’s own credibility to provide correct information. We will work with them to make them understand.
And, have you noticed that there is an Arabic translation for google but no Persian, and we have the second biggest Bolgger population in the world? again… deeply upset.
Last point, unfortunately the government of IRAN simply doesn’t care much about these issues as they are just like our Arab friends here! no scenes of Iranian Nationality (which is proud of it’s different religions and cultures…, ), their way of approaching this situation does not surprise me, nothing will happen from the government, but We have the power to save us.
Thanks all for the comments.
Regards,
H-Iranian-Persian
Hi Again, (this one is long! sorry!)
I’m not surprised to see that comment from our Arab friend :) stating everybody talks Arabic and …., well, not to go to unwise conversations BUT, I have to say this and can’t just keep it to myself, I am Iranian, we as Iranians have many different tribes. different races, different aialect and many different other things, we are very proud of it, we beleive as Iranian, this is our way of living and our stregnth, for many many years (from the day of pPersian empire till today) we have beilived in this and this is the reason we are still exist as a nation, we have the nationality, and this is the most important thing, then we are from differrent tribes like Lors, Kurds, Mazani, Balouch, Azari (Turks) even Arabs (and more), addition to that we have different believes! Zorostarian, Musilm, Christian, Jewish (and more), this is strong and beutiful, I am a Iranian Iranian Muslim Brown guy! my friend is Iranian Kurd Zoarastarian white guy! but we are all Iranians and that I important. In case of south and north of Persian Gulf, in the north we are all Iranians, who are known as Persian to outside world (mostly!) in the Sounth we have what? no offence to any of the Arab states but these states invented by British policy after WWII ! of course except Bahrain and Oman, which Bahrain was part of Iran and they were called Persian as well!
So to you my Arab friend, there is a wish to have a Arab nation! but unfortunately this never happened, mostly bcuz you people hate each other more than your enemies! you have your palestinians (Arabs) dieing while you are having fun in europe! when part of us got occopied in the war with Iraq, which by the way it was the Iranian state with most Iranian Arab citizens, we all went there and fought and took it back, all of us! Persians, Turks, Lors, Arabs… every Iranian, can you understand that?
The Persian Gulf name is part of our history, culture and pride, and believe me with some “new happened” building in the south of it you can’t change the name and it’s history, I know you will try but you just don’t know who is your friend and who is your enemy…
I think Google added A-Gulf name to its map based on some politics going on these days, or maybe they just don;t know the geography! that is very common in America! and google owner are not much a part of it apparently.
The internation name of this body of water is Persian Gulf, has been and is and will be, google is just mistaking and ruining it’s own credibility to provide correct information. We will work with them to make them understand.
And, have you noticed that there is an Arabic translation for google but no Persian, and we have the second biggest Bolgger population in the world? again… deeply upset.
Last point, unfortunately the government of IRAN simply doesn’t care much about these issues as they are just like our Arab friends here! no scenes of Iranian Nationality (which is proud of it’s different religions and cultures…, ), their way of approaching this situation does not surprise me, nothing will happen from the government, but We have the power to save us.
Thanks all for the comments.
Regards,
H-Iranian-Persian
hi! I just wanted to say you cannot change the history… that’s it! It’s always been PERSIAN GULF AND WILL ALWAYS REMAIN PERSIAN GULF, no matter what.
Want to know the ANSWER? Well, HERE is the ANSWER! http://www.arabian-gulf.info/