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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Wednesday that Baghdad’s Ambassador to Tehran Nasir Abdul Mohsen Abdullah has been summoned over the use of a fake name for the universally-recognized Persian Gulf by Iraqi officials.
“We summoned the Iraqi ambassador to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the Iraqi authorities used a fake name for the Persian Gulf,” Amir Abdollahian stated.
“We conveyed to the Iraqi side the sensitivity the great Iranian nation has about the (need to) use of the accurate and complete designation of the Persian Gulf,” he added.
The top diplomat noted that Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani had corrected the wrong way of labelling Persian Gulf in a recent post he posted on social media.
“Despite having strategic, fraternal, and deep relations with Iraq, we have openly conveyed our protest with regards to the issue,” the minister continued.
On Monday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kana’ani noted that Tehran has expressed its objection to Baghdad over using the fake misnomer of “Arabian Gulf” to refer to the Persian Gulf.
The Iraqi city of Basra is hosting the return matches of a local competition, and Iraq set up billboards to welcome the foreign teams to the “25th Arabian Gulf Cup”.
Using the fake label for the Persian Gulf is seen in Iran as a futile attempt by the Arab neighbors to distort the region’s ancient history.
Iran’s Football Federation (FFIRI) also announced that it will complain to FIFA over the move.
