New York Times: The Persian Gulf makes the Iranians unite

According to RCO News Agency, US media, referring to the history of the Persian Gulf, has been published by the News that US President Donald Trump’s government intends to use a fake name to call it, has created more unity among Iranians.

The New York Times writes in a preface to the news about Trump’s program for the Persian Gulf: The turquoise blue zone of color was at least 5 BC, when the Cyrus the Great’s Persian dynasty ruled an empire from India to the edges of Western Europe. Ancient Iran is now modern Iran and all its southern coasts extend along the Persian Gulf.

The media writes that “Iranian governments have decisively defended the Persian Gulf as the only legitimate name for this area,” the media writes: Iranians at home and abroad have the same opinion and consider it a major part of their national and cultural identity. Trump made a hard work as easy as possible by proposing renamed The representation of Iranian unity from all political, ideological and religious factions. In statements and posts on social media, they condemned Trump’s idea.

Can Trump really change the name of the Persian Gulf?

According to the report, Trump could order geographical names to his desire, but other countries do not have to respect these changes. This year, he issued an executive order to update the government’s geographical names to change all references to the Mexican Gulf to the US Gulf.

On Friday, Mexican President Claudia Shinbaum said the Mexican government had complained to Google for its decision to execute Trump’s order.

The US geographical name delegation has now required the use of the Persian Gulf for official US trade. At the global level, the International Organization of Hydrography is working to standardize and draw maritime borders. But the organization told the New York Times this year that “there is no international agreement or protocol to name maritime.”

How did the Iranians respond?

Trump’s idea was condemned by a wide range of Iranians; Even those who disagree on some issues.

“This is beyond politics; It is beyond religious differences and ideologies – this is a matter of nation and history and has been well considered. Does Trump want to negotiate with Iran or want to destroy its national identity? “

He emphasized that Iranians have been referred to as “water and soil” from ancient times. The Blue Zone – the Persian Gulf in the south and the Caspian Sea in the north – is deeply intertwined in the blood of Iranians as symbols of nationality.

Ahmad Zaidabadi, a political analyst in Tehran, wrote in an X -ray: “Just because of Trump’s wishes, the Gulf of Mexico will not become the US Gulf, Canada will not join the United States, Greenland will not be owned by the United States, and the Persian Gulf will not be fake.”

The Iranian national football team responded to this issue with a map of the Persian Gulf and the popular hashtag #Foreverpersiangulf on its official Instagram page.

Even Iranian opposition figures expressed their dissatisfaction.

What is the history of the Persian Gulf?

The name “Gulf” has historically been used in maps, documents and diplomacy, from the ancient Iranians whose empire dominated the region to the Greeks and the British.

The attempt to name it as another was intensified during the Pan -Arabis nationalism movement in the late 1980s.

The United Nations uses the term Persian Gulf. An article in year 6 by a UN work group in historical documents about the term, which is said to have been invented by the Iranian king Darius, in the fifth century BC.

Will this affect Iran -US nuclear talks?

Iran and the United States have held three indirect negotiations on Iran’s progress and are scheduled to meet today – Sunday – again. The United States wants to prevent Iran’s nuclear program from weapons, and Iran wants to lift sanctions.

Seyyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian senior diplomat and member of the country’s nuclear negotiating team in 2007, said that if Trump changed the Persian Gulf name, he would hit talks.

“This only creates distrust,” says Mousavian.

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