Thursday, November 25, 2004
CRISIS
Crisis: National Geographic has used a wrong name for Persian Gulf
Journalists and politicians protest to the Persian Gulf name violation in Shargh Newspaper
http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/830902/html/societ.htm
http://akhbar.gooya.com/politics/archives/019342.php
Iran Bars National Geographic Over Map Dispute Sun Nov 21, 2004 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6876759
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Updated: 12:46 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2004 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6548908/
TEHRAN - Iran banned National Geographic reporters and sales of the magazine until it corrects an atlas it published using a disputed name for waters off the Islamic Republic's south coast.
Iran insists on calling the waters the "Persian Gulf." However, the saltwater body also touches the shores of eastern Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain. Many people in these other states refer to the waters as the "Arabian Gulf."
Iran's culture ministry said the atlas published by U.S.-based National Geographic labeled the waters as the "Persian Gulf," but also included the "Arabian Gulf" name in parentheses on the map.
"As a reaction, we are banning their journalists from entering Iran and the distribution of their publications until they correct this," the culture ministry's foreign media director Mohammad Hossein Khoshvaght told Reuters.
The ministry also said the atlas labels three islands in the Gulf claimed by the United Arab Emirates as "occupied by Iran." Iran insists Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb are part of its sovereign territory.
"We consider this a clear violation of U.N. documents and antagonistic towards Iran's national interests," Khoshvaght said. "National Geographic should immediately correct this big mistake and this strange move."
The National Geographic's chief cartographer Allen Carroll defended the use of both names.
"We do, and will continue, to recognize 'Persian Gulf' as the primary name," he said on National Geographic's Web site.
"But we want people searching for "Arabian Gulf" to be able to find what they're looking for and not to confuse it with the nearby Arabian Sea," he added.
The culture ministry has previously also objected to the use of the compromise term "The Gulf" used by some foreign news agencies.
---------------------------------------------------------- See these links about National Geographic Society & Persian Gulf : MIDDLE EAST ONINE ; http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11953 VOICE OF AMERICA : http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2004-11-19-voa35.cfm CHINA's OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2248765.htm NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1119_041119_atlas.html
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Please state your comments for the following National Geographic Atlas of the World reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792275438/ref%3Dnosim/teijn-20/104-2115775-6647904
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0792275438&itm=1
Journalists and politicians protest to the Persian Gulf name violation in Shargh Newspaper
http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/830902/html/societ.htm
http://akhbar.gooya.com/politics/archives/019342.php
Iran Bars National Geographic Over Map Dispute Sun Nov 21, 2004 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6876759
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Please sign the petition online for National Geographic magazine who has used the term Arabian Gulf for our Persian Gulf.
It takes less than 20 seconds.
http://www.petitiononline.com/persian/petition.html
Or, write a letter - use this template!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Click on this link as frequently as you can, so that it becomes the Google 1st rank for "A... Gulf"
Arabian Gulf
or
Arabian Gulf
Please forward this message to as many people as you can.
You can also use the above link as your homepage, so that each time your internet explorer is launched, one additional visit is registered
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Updated: 12:46 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2004 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6548908/
TEHRAN - Iran banned National Geographic reporters and sales of the magazine until it corrects an atlas it published using a disputed name for waters off the Islamic Republic's south coast.
Iran insists on calling the waters the "Persian Gulf." However, the saltwater body also touches the shores of eastern Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain. Many people in these other states refer to the waters as the "Arabian Gulf."
Iran's culture ministry said the atlas published by U.S.-based National Geographic labeled the waters as the "Persian Gulf," but also included the "Arabian Gulf" name in parentheses on the map.
"As a reaction, we are banning their journalists from entering Iran and the distribution of their publications until they correct this," the culture ministry's foreign media director Mohammad Hossein Khoshvaght told Reuters.
The ministry also said the atlas labels three islands in the Gulf claimed by the United Arab Emirates as "occupied by Iran." Iran insists Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb are part of its sovereign territory.
"We consider this a clear violation of U.N. documents and antagonistic towards Iran's national interests," Khoshvaght said. "National Geographic should immediately correct this big mistake and this strange move."
The National Geographic's chief cartographer Allen Carroll defended the use of both names.
"We do, and will continue, to recognize 'Persian Gulf' as the primary name," he said on National Geographic's Web site.
"But we want people searching for "Arabian Gulf" to be able to find what they're looking for and not to confuse it with the nearby Arabian Sea," he added.
The culture ministry has previously also objected to the use of the compromise term "The Gulf" used by some foreign news agencies.
---------------------------------------------------------- See these links about National Geographic Society & Persian Gulf : MIDDLE EAST ONINE ; http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11953 VOICE OF AMERICA : http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2004-11-19-voa35.cfm CHINA's OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2248765.htm NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1119_041119_atlas.html
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Please state your comments for the following National Geographic Atlas of the World reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792275438/ref%3Dnosim/teijn-20/104-2115775-6647904
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0792275438&itm=1
