Immediate and unconditional deletion of Arabian Gulf from Google Earth
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February 19, 2008
Dear Administrators of Google Earth,
We, the undersigned, through this letter, protest your irresponsible, unscientific actions, and demand an immediate and unconditional deletion of Arabian Gulf from Google Earth.
Arbitrarily designating the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf is an irresponsible violation of all historical and International standards and would undermine the integrity of Google Earth.
For the records, the name Persia has always been used to describe the nation of Iran, its people, and its ancient empires since 600 BC. It is derived from the ancient Greek name for Iran's maritime province, called Fars or Pars in modern Persian, Pars in Middle Persian and Pвrsa in Old Persian, a word meaning "above reproach. Persis is the Hellenized form of Pars, and through the Latinized word Persia, the other European nations came to use this word for the region. This area was the core of the original Persian Empire.
Since ancient times almost all foreigners referred to the entire country as Persia until March 21, 1935, when Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call the country Iran a name that the people of Persia, themselves, used to refer to their country since the Sassanian period. "Iran" means "Land of Aryans". In 1959 some Persian scholars protested to the government that the name change had separated the country from its ancient civilization. Therefore, the late King Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi announced that both Persia and Iran can be used in Western languages.
Without disparaging the Arabs, Iranians are proud of their non-Arab heritage and strongly resent any attempt at denigrating or changing any aspect of their Iranian heritage. And the Persian Gulf occupies a pivotal place in the Iranian history and culture. Furthermore, Iran abuts the Persian Gulf for 2,000 Km, while about a dozen recently-created Arab Sheikhdoms and emirates border the Gulf on the other side.
The historical and geographical name of the Persian Gulf has been endorsed and clarified by the United Nations on many occasions and is in use by the UN, its member states, and all other international agencies worldwide. The last UN Directive confirming the name of the Persian Gulf was (reference ST/CS/SER.A/29/Add.2) on August, 18th 1994.
The worldwide Iranian people are deeply affronted by this arrogant designation of The Arabian Gulf. We demand, in the strongest possible terms, that you take immediate steps to restore the rightful name of the Persian Gulf to the waterway on Google Earth and delete any other arbitrary name. We hope that this notice would suffice and obviates the need for litigation.
Dear Administrators of Google Earth,
We, the undersigned, through this letter, protest your irresponsible, unscientific actions, and demand an immediate and unconditional deletion of Arabian Gulf from Google Earth.
Arbitrarily designating the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf is an irresponsible violation of all historical and International standards and would undermine the integrity of Google Earth.
For the records, the name Persia has always been used to describe the nation of Iran, its people, and its ancient empires since 600 BC. It is derived from the ancient Greek name for Iran's maritime province, called Fars or Pars in modern Persian, Pars in Middle Persian and Pвrsa in Old Persian, a word meaning "above reproach. Persis is the Hellenized form of Pars, and through the Latinized word Persia, the other European nations came to use this word for the region. This area was the core of the original Persian Empire.
Since ancient times almost all foreigners referred to the entire country as Persia until March 21, 1935, when Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call the country Iran a name that the people of Persia, themselves, used to refer to their country since the Sassanian period. "Iran" means "Land of Aryans". In 1959 some Persian scholars protested to the government that the name change had separated the country from its ancient civilization. Therefore, the late King Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi announced that both Persia and Iran can be used in Western languages.
Without disparaging the Arabs, Iranians are proud of their non-Arab heritage and strongly resent any attempt at denigrating or changing any aspect of their Iranian heritage. And the Persian Gulf occupies a pivotal place in the Iranian history and culture. Furthermore, Iran abuts the Persian Gulf for 2,000 Km, while about a dozen recently-created Arab Sheikhdoms and emirates border the Gulf on the other side.
The historical and geographical name of the Persian Gulf has been endorsed and clarified by the United Nations on many occasions and is in use by the UN, its member states, and all other international agencies worldwide. The last UN Directive confirming the name of the Persian Gulf was (reference ST/CS/SER.A/29/Add.2) on August, 18th 1994.
The worldwide Iranian people are deeply affronted by this arrogant designation of The Arabian Gulf. We demand, in the strongest possible terms, that you take immediate steps to restore the rightful name of the Persian Gulf to the waterway on Google Earth and delete any other arbitrary name. We hope that this notice would suffice and obviates the need for litigation.
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Dr. Iman Foroutan
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- SOS Iran
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Amil Imani
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- www.amilimani.com
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Shane K
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- Also Read this letter to Google http://www.niacouncil.org/images/PDF_files/google\%20earth\%20letter.pdf
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Janet Levy
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Farsheed Azad
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Cyrus Marvasti
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- ActivistChat Open Forum supports this petition by sosiran.com
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asal
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Farah Marvasti
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- I'll not use google as point of information search until this irresponsible act is reversed.
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Ben Powell
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- Reverse the outrageous userpation!!
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Reza Keya
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- Persian Gulf for ever
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Fariba Keya
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sara safiri
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- В
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Dr. Keyhan Hakim
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- Persian Gulf will always be Persian Gulf
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Ada Evans
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- This name change is tantamount to revisionist history!
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Amir Khosrow Sheibany
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- http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/masouda/google-earth-calls-it-arabian-gulf-now
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sohrab saidi
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Cyrus
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- How many Jew hating, Christian hating and Iranian hating Sheikhs does it take to pay off these people. The Persian Gulf Arab governments are getting more dangerous by the day and the U.S., Iran and Israel must stop them! They are the new Nazis of our day and if it was up to them, they would turn all of us into lamp shades and bars of soap! Wake up people!
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M.Tong
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hashem hakimi
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- Omly profound ignorance makes such a delibrare twisting facts.
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Behshid Danaii
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- As a source of information, Google must ensure accurate delivery, instead of engaging in geopolitics. Please correct this deliberate error.
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Habib Heidari nejad
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Nader
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- Unconditional deletion of Arabian Gulf from Google Earth
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D. Madjlessi
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- Holland
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afshin jam
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- Canada
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Stefania Lapenna
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- Google Earth should be an example of integrity and intelligence. Instead, it has shown its ignorance of geographic and historical facts. It's as if a math teacher didn't know that 2+2 equals 4! GE should immediately remove that unknown name and use the historical name of that water body. We expect it to do if they're really a staff of "experts"!
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Iran forever
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- Longe live Iran and death to Islam and Arab terrorists
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ali tabatabai
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Dr. Keyvan Rohani
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- Thank you SOS for this alarm. I support this 100\%
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arash Zarei
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- Please don't play polictics with historical facts.
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Leyla Monajeb
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- I wonder how much money Google Erath was paid by the Arabs!
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Mojgan Fahim
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- Google Earth must comply or we will sue them.
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Nejade, Armand
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Mehdi Salehi
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- Please obseve your academic and historical ETHICS
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Farhad Shayesteh
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- We will fight to death to make sure Persian Gulf will always remain Persian Gulf
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Mahmoud Ghaffari
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- Please replace with its historic and correct name of the "Persian Gulf"
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ali .r zehpour
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- it was and it will always be the persian gulf ."khlije fars
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Pirooz
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- SOS Iran
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ali .r zehpour
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- it was and it will always be the persian gulf ."khlije fars
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Arash Parsian
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- Only Persian Gulf, you can use arabian golf when Arabs play golf !!!!
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Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam
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David Etebari
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- Is Google changing the name of Gulf of Mexico without any basis next??!!!
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carmen wright
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babak tavakol
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- jebheie nejat
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Cyrus Etemad-Moghadam
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Jahanshah Rashidian
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Dr. Mohammed H. Alai Tafti
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Laili Paksima
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Yari
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- It is forever Persian Gulf!
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Farokh Talebi
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- Correct your big mistake, please.This is History, not stupid Politics of the wanabe Emperor.
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Dr. Maryam Hojjat
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