The government of Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely the Gulf in a map in the latest edition.
State television made the announcement Wednesday night, noting it is the second time the government has made such a move to protect the country's Persian roots.
In November 2004, it banned the National Geographic atlas when a new edition was published with the term Arabian Gulf in parenthesis beside the more commonly used Persian Gulf.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Banned in Iran
From UPI via the Arab Herald:
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