Why do the Farsis here think that we 450 million Arabs care about the little tiny swallow waters of the Gulf when we have a several thousand km long Mediterranean coastline, access to the beautiful Red Sea with the second biggest coral reef in the world and a sea with one of the richest marine biologies in the world, several Gulfs that have Arabic names (Gulf of Oman next to Mullahistan), Shat al-Arab next to Mullahistan again, Libyan Sea access to the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean,
ARABIAN Sea etc.
Must be because they themselves only have access to water through the Caspian Sea (a big lake), a small coastline to the Gulf of Oman and then the swallow Gulf coastline inhabited by Arabs, Baluch and some Persians. Even their main port city Bandar Abbas derives from an Arab name.
Let them call it what they want. We Arabs and Semites lived near the shores of the Gulf way before the Persians emigrated from their homeland on the Kazakh/Central Asian Steppe to what is now Iran 2800 years ago.
Is that all they can worry about in this time and age?
Absolutely hilarious. Let us call it the Super Duper Central Asian Persian Super Duper Gulf for all I care.
We don't give a crap. At least I do not. The few million Khaliji Arabs who live in the coastal areas of UAE, Kuwait, the Eastern Province in KSA will still continue to call it the Arabian Gulf or just the Gulf. No matter if it changed name to the Gulf of Mickey Mouse.
Just for the laugh:
It's Really the Sumerian Gulf - NYTimes.com