Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is scheduled to visit US President Donald Trump next month for a well-known meeting. According to US officers, the United States has opted to send to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia prior to his visit. Trump’s first official overseas trip since leaving the White House, away from a brief stop in Rome for Pope Francis’s cremation. Off Iran’s southern coast, the Persian Gulf, which has long been a target of Arab countries, is being called the” Persian Gulf,” but Iran continues to fight the ancient name.
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On Tuesday, the two US leaders, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, gave The Associated Press the details. Since the 16th century, the Persian Gulf has been called that name, but some Middle Eastern nations refer to it as the” Gulf of Arabia” or” Arab Gulf.” Iran, previously known as Persia, threatened to sue Google in 2012 for failing to include the water system on its drawings. Apple Maps just mentions the Persian Gulf, which is the name of the ocean system used in Google Maps. In a row over Trump’s use of the term as the” Arabian Gulf,” during his first term in office in 2017, a row broke out. Hassan Rouhani, the then-president of Iran, responded by saying Trump needed to” research geography.” All was aware that Trump’s friendship was up for sale to the highest bid. We then know that his landscape is, too,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, the then-Iranian Foreign Minister, posted on social media at the time. Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, added that the names of Middle Eastern waterways “do not imply possession by any particular state, but quite reflect a shared respect for the social history of humanity.” On the social media platform X, Abbas Araghchi wrote that “politically motivated tries to change the previously established title of the Persian Gulf are a sign of hostile purpose toward Iran and its people.” Any rash decision in this regard will have no constitutional result, be it legally or geographically, and will only wreak havoc among Iranians of all political stripes and ideologies in Iran, the US, and other countries. Trump has the right to change his name for legal reasons, but he didn’t choose what the rest of the world calls it. This pronouncement comes some weeks after Trump stated that he would speak to the” Gulf of Mexico” as the” Gulf of America”. President Trump will travel to Doha, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, two nations that border the Persian Gulf, in addition to Saudi Arabia. The journey is a part of his plan to strengthen ties with Gulf countries, enlisting them in their financial assistance in the US, and offer assistance in pressing local issues like the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and reducing Iran’s nuclear program.
