History

Iran's sovereignty over the three islands of the Lesser and Greater Tunbs and Abu Musa is among controversial issues which is often being debated by certain Arab countries. This same group is also attempting for years to change the name of the Persian Gulf in southern Iran into the `Arabian Gulf'. These attempts are being made despite the fact that the term Persian Gulf has been used in the oldest historical sources, including that of the Greek historian Herodotus, over 2500 years go. Iran's sovereignty over the three islands has been also emphatically referred to in many other historical documents.

The United Nations with 22 Arab member States has on two occasions officially declared the unalterable name of the sea between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula as the Persian Gulf. The first announcement was made through the document UNAD, 311/Qen on March 5, 1971 and the second was UNLA 45.8.2 (C) on August 10, 1984.

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