RobbyG wrote:Tom Jones wrote:Sorry Melika but I don’t agree!!
Let’s leave the heritage and history issues aside, and talk present day realities!!
As you know, the Gulf does not totally belong to Iran!! The Gulf legally belongs, in part, to all the countries that have shorelines on it. Each country’s territorial waters (for up to 12 nautical miles) is considered part of the sovereign territory of that country. The rest is international waters!!
So don’t you think that the name of the Gulf should be agreed upon jointly by Iran, Iraq and the Gulf States because they all own it!!!
Never heard so much crap in my life. One thing Jones...know your history! Rookie!
What’s the matter with you Robby?
Are you that thickheaded to know that history cannot not change the present?
All you seem to know how to say, like a broken record, is “know your history!”
I honestly don’t give a damn about history, and about who was powerful and who owned what or who named what? I read history and enjoy learning about what happened in the past, but all that will not change the realities of today.
You can live in the past if you want, but we don’t. We live in the present, and we have to deal with today’s realities not with some irrelevant historical stories!
The Arabs used to refer to Israel as Palestine, and they used to blackout the name “Israel” from all the world maps in their school textbooks, but now they don’t. Why? Because they are beginning to accept today’s reality that Israel will not go away.
Iran needs to come to the reality that it is no longer an empire. It has to make peace with its neighbors for its own good, and if that means tolerating the fact that the Arabs call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, so what!!! The Iranians can continue to call it the Persian Gulf, but they cannot force the Arabs to call it as such.
And, truthfully, the whole thing looks to me as utterly unimportant and petty in the first place.
Oh…and by the way, Melika, for your info, the Indian Ocean was not named by the Indians but by the early sea traders, and the part of it that borders the Arabian Peninsula is called the Arabian Sea. But most importantly, the name was never in dispute as in the case with the Persian Gulf.
All I’m saying is: if there is a such dispute, and in order to have peace and good neighborly relations between all the parties, they either have to find a resolution to the dispute, or simply not to make it a dispute (i.e., by not making a big deal out of it!!!)
Pure a simple!!