President Trump has presented the name of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf before a trip to the Middle East next week, a movement that enraged Iran and its people.
“I will have to make a decision,” Trump said at the Oval office on Wednesday. “I don’t want anyone’s feelings. I don’t know if feelings will be hurt.”
Last week, Associated Press reported that Trump planned to announce the renewed on his tour of several Arab countries, which have been pressing for the change for years.
The turquoise blue water has been called the Persian Gulf from less 550 a. The ancient Persia is now modern, and its entire southern coast extends along the Persian Gulf.
Iran’s governments, returning to the era prior to the Shah revolution, have incorrectly defended the Persian Gulf as the only name Begitime. The Iranians have also done inside and outside the country, who see the name as a central part of their national and cultural identity.
By suggestion, the change of name, Trump has apparently done the impossible: to unite the Iranians of all political, ideological and religious factions. They have spoken in statements and publications on social networks, condemning Trump’s idea.
Can Trump really change the name of the Gulf?
Trump has the power to order changes in geographical names, since they are used in the United States. But other countries do not have to honor those changes.
This year, an executive order is issued to update the government’s geographical name information system to change all references for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. (On Friday, President Claudia Sheinbaum said the Mexican government had sued Google for her decision to comply with the order of Mr. Trump).
The United States Board on geographical names currently requires the use of the Persian Gulf for the official business of the United States.
Worldwide, the international hydrographic organization works to standardize and draw marine limits. But the organization told the New York Times this year that “there was no formal international agreement or protocol to appoint maritime areas.”
How have Iranians reacted?
The idea of Mr. Trump took the condemnation of a wide cross section of Iranians, which are often divided into many issues.
“It goes beyond politics; it goes beyond religious divisions and ideologies, it is about the nation and its history, and has reached a chord,” said historian Touraj Daryyae, director of the Center for Persian Studies at the University of California-Irvine. “Do you want to negotiate with Iran or do you want to take your national identity?”
Mr. Daryee said that since ancient times, the Iranians have referred to their nation as “ab or khakh,“ Which means “water and earth.” Two bodies of water, the Persian Gulf in the south and the Caspian Sea to the north, are deeply intertwined in the Iranian psyche as symbols of the nation.
Ahmad Zeidabadi, an outstanding analyst from Tehran, published in X, “only for Trump’s wishes and whims, the Gulf of Mexico will not become the Gulf of America, Canada will not join the United States, Greenlandia will not become a possession of the United States and the Persian Gulf will not take a false name.”
Iran’s national football team intervened with a map of the Persian Gulf and a Hashtag of Trending #Forverpersiangulf on its official Instagram page.
Likewise, the Iranian opposition figures expressed their disgust.
Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah or Iran who supports Mr. Trump and encouraged him to abandon diplomacy with the government in Tehran, he said on social networks: “President Trump’s decision reported to distort the story, if it is true, it is an insult to the Iranian people and our Adremidion.”
What is the story of the Persian Gulf?
The name of the Persian Gulf has been used throughout history, in maps, documents and diplomacy, since the time of the ancient Persians, whose empire dominated the region, the Greeks and the British.
The impulse to call it the Gulf Golfo Golfó Golfó Vapor during the Nationalist Movement of Arabic in the late 1950s.
The United Nations use the term the Persian Gulf. A 2006 document of a UN working group found unanimity in historical documents in the term, which according to Persian King Dariush coined in the 5th century. C.
Will this affect Iran-United States nuclear conversations?
Iran and the United States have celebrated three rounds of negotiations, mediated by Oman, in Iran’s advanced nuclear program, and are scheduled to meet again on Sunday.
The United States wants to prevent their nuclear program from being assembled, and Iran wants to eliminate the sanctions that have hindered its economy.
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian senior diplomat and a member of the country’s nuclear negotiation team in 2015, said that Trump renamed the Persian Gulf, would hit the negotiations.
“He will simply create and commission hard funds in Iran who say he can’t trust the United States,” said Mousavian in an interview.
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