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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely "the Gulf" in a map published in the latest edition, state television reported Wednesday.
It is the second time in two years that Iran has banned such an international publication for failing to use the term "Persian Gulf" in a map. In 2004, it banned the National Geographic atlas when a new edition appeared with the term "Arabian Gulf" in parentheses beside the more commonly used Persian Gulf.See the full content of this document
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Iran Bans Map with Gulf Not Called Persian
Tehran believes in aggressively defending the use of the historical term Persian ...
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