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104676799 over 4 years ago

You can see it here too

https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/p/Persian_Gulf.htm

104676799 over 4 years ago

Since the 1960s, starting with Gamal Abdel Nasser, some of the Persian Gulf's Arabs and their states have often used the name Arabian Gulf (in Arabic: الخلیج العربي al-khalīj al-ʿarabī) for the body. This is controversial and not commonly used outside of the Arab world, nor is it recognized by the United Nations and other international organizations as historically the name is "Persian Gulf". "Arabian Gulf" is also an ancient name for the Red Sea. The term Arabian Gulf is slowly beginning to fade away when Kuwait and Iraq, who both have ports on the Persian Gulf, took sides with Iran's argument to keep the name of the sea as the Persian Gulf.