Iran has warned that airlines will be banned from flying into its airspace, unless they use the term “Persian Gulf” on their in-flight monitors.
The transport minister has threatened to impound planes that fail to comply.
The nation is most insistent that the stretch of water separating it from its southern neighbors should be known as the Persian Gulf.
To call it the Gulf, annoys the authorities; to call it the Arabian Gulf, infuriates them even more
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