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Persian Gulf naming dispute
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The Persian Gulf naming dispute is about the name of the body of water known historically and internationally as the Persian Gulf (Persian: خلیج فارس), after the land of Persia (the old Name of Iran. some Arab countries since the 1960s started to call it Arabian Gulf [1]
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