TEHRAN, Iran Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely "the Gulf" in a map published in the latest edition, state television reported Wednesday. It is the second ...

Trump earlier this year signed an executive action to rename the Gulf of Mexico, which Google maps now lists for its US-based users as “the Gulf of America.” ...

The backstory: The Persian Gulf has been known by that name since the 16th century, although "Gulf of Arabia" and "Arabian Gulf" is used in many countries in the Middle East.

Iran’s national soccer team weighed in with a map of the Persian Gulf and a trending hashtag #ForeverPersianGulf on its official Instagram page. Even Iranian opposition figures expressed their ...

Iran threatened to sue Google in 2012 over the fact that the Persian Gulf wasn't labeled on its map. Google Maps currently labels the body of water as the Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf) in the U.S.

After spending months trying to rename the Gulf of Mexico, Donald Trump reportedly wants to rename the Persian Gulf, too. It's worth understanding why.

In 2017, A disagreement occurred during Trump’s first term in office when he used the name Arabian Gulf for the waterway. Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president at the time, hinted that Trump needed ...