Editing Persian Gulf (section)

===Modern naming dispute===
{{Main|Persian Gulf naming dispute}}

The body of water is historically and internationally known as the Persian Gulf.<ref>{{cite web|author=Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)|title=The World Fact Book|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/iran/|access-date=2010-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=nationsonline.org|title=Political Map of Iran|url=http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/iran_map.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127182747/http://nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/iran_map.htm|archive-date=2010-11-27|access-date=2010-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=United Nations|title=United Nations Cartographic Section (Middle East Map)|url=https://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630232206/http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm|archive-date=2017-06-30|access-date=2017-06-29}}</ref> [[Arab League|Arab governments]] refer to it as the Arabian Gulf or The Gulf,<ref name="LINK2">Niusha Boghrati, [http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2616.cfm ''Omission of 'Persian Gulf' Name Angers Iran''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109185735/http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2616.cfm|date=2007-01-09}}, World Press.com, 28 December 2006</ref> and other countries and organizations{{specify|date=December 2024}} have begun using Arabian Gulf.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zraick |first1=Karen |title=Persian (or Arabian) Gulf Is Caught in the Middle of Regional Rivalries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/world/middleeast/persian-gulf-arabian-gulf-iran-saudi-arabia.html |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=12 January 2016}}</ref> The name Gulf of Iran is used by the [[International Hydrographic Organization]].<ref name="IHO2">{{cite web|year=1953|title=Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition|url=https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/s-23/S-23_Ed3_1953_EN.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008191433/http://www.iho-ohi.net/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S23_1953.pdf|archive-date=8 October 2011|access-date=28 December 2020|publisher=International Hydrographic Organization|page=21}}</ref>

The dispute in naming has become especially prevalent since the 1960s.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Security Considerations in the Persian Gulf |journal=[[International Security]] |date=Fall 1980 |last=Eilts |first=Hermann |author-link=Hermann Eilts |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=79–113 |doi=10.2307/2538446 |jstor=2538446 |s2cid=154527123 }}</ref> Rivalry between Iran and some Arab states, along with the emergence of [[pan-Arabism]] and [[Arab nationalism]], has seen the name "Arabian Gulf" become predominant in most Arab countries.<ref>{{cite news |last=Abedin |first=Mahan |url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FL09Ak03.html |title=All at Sea over 'the Gulf' |work=[[Asia Times Online]] |date=4 December 2004 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160521084254/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FL09Ak03.html |archive-date=2016-05-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Bosworth, C. Edmund |year=1980 |chapter=The Nomenclature of the Persian Gulf |pages=xvii–xxxvi |editor=Cottrell, Alvin J. |title=The Persian Gulf States: A General Survey |location=Baltimore, Maryland |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |quote=Not until the early 1960s does a major new development occur with the adoption by the Arab states bordering on the Persian Gulf of the expression ''al-Khalij al-Arabi'' as weapon in the psychological war with Iran for political influence in the Persian Gulf; but the story of these events belongs to a subsequent chapter on modern political and diplomatic history of the Persian Gulf.|quote-page=xxxiii |author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth }}</ref>