Engulfed
Iran has banned an issue of The Economist magazine for containing a map that refers to the Persian Gulf simply as "the Gulf." In 2004, it banned a National Geographic atlas for describing the gulf in parentheses as "the Arabian Gulf."
Iran has banned an issue of The Economist magazine for containing a map that refers to the Persian Gulf simply as "the Gulf." In 2004, it banned a National Geographic atlas for describing the gulf in parentheses as "the Arabian Gulf."
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