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Dec 04
The Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf. Firts Iranian blogopshere's Google bombing has been successfull: arabian gulf The page we made protesting National Geographic's use of Arabic names for some Iranian islands and for the Persian gulf, is now ranked first in Google, thanks to efforts by Pendar and thousands of Iranian bloggers. But in their press release, National Geographic Society has defended its decision to use those names. Here is their press release about the issue which is behind a wierd guest book form: Statement on Persian Gulf/Arabian Gulf National Geographic Books has recently published its Eighth Edition Atlas of the World. Questions have been raised... [Editor: Myself (English)] 8:01:48 PM ![]() |