President Donald Trump is making plans for the United States to begin referring to the Persian Gulf as the Gulf of Arabia or the Arabian Gulf, two administration officials familiar with the ...

The name of the body of water has long been a point of contention for many Arab countries, who call it the Arabian Gulf or Gulf of Arabia. Google maps labels the region "Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf ...

The map locates the Persian Gulf, and the surrounding countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates ... Cyrus the Great ruled an empire that spanned from ...

AP Since the 1960s, Arab nations have lobbied for the body of water — widely known as the Persian Gulf since the 16th century — to be renamed. Iran, which was known as Persia until 1935 ...

The Persian Gulf is a body of water that separates Persia (Iran) from the hub of the Arab world ... the first king of the Persian Empire, considered the father of the Iranian people, from the ...

The Persian Gulf is the bay between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates also have shorelines along the Gulf. Trump is planning to make an announcement about how the ...

DUBAI, Unites Arab Emirates — President Donald ... while the State Department and CIA have thus far used Persian Gulf. Iran, home of the former Persian empire, threatened in 2012 to sue Google ...

though it's referred to as the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Arabia in many Arab countries. Iran, home of the former Persian empire, threatened in 2012 to sue Google for not naming the body of water ...

DUBAI, Unites Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump's administration reportedly plans to announce that the U.S. will officially call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf or Gulf of Arabia ...