SOURCE: NYT
1-12-16
tags: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf, Arabian Gulf
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1-12-16
Persian (or Arabian) Gulf Is Caught in the Middle of Regional Rivalries
Breaking Newstags: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf, Arabian Gulf
What’s in a name?
History, politics and pride.
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been escalating on many fronts — over wars in Syria and Yemen, the Saudis’ execution of a dissident Shiite cleric and the Iran nuclear deal. The dispute runs so deep that the regional rivals — one a Shiite theocracy, the other a Sunni monarchy — even clash over the name of the body of water that separates them.
Is it the Persian Gulf? Or the Arabian Gulf?
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