Thursday, June 15, 2006

Banned in Iran

From UPI via the Arab Herald:
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.

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