In response to the US Navy presence in Persian Gulf, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in his twitter account on Friday that US Navy can’t seem to find its way around our waters.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif noted: "Perhaps because it hasn’t figured out its name: Persian Gulf, as it's been called for 2,000 yrs longer than US has existed. Or maybe it doesn't know what it's doing in our backyard, 7,000 miles from home".
Zarif: maybe it doesn't know what it's doing in our backyard, 7,000 miles from home
The name of the body of water separating the Arabian Peninsula from the Iranian plateau, historically and internationally, has been known as the Persian Gulf.
On almost all maps printed before 1960, and in most modern international treaties, documents and maps, this body of water is known by the name of "Persian Gulf."
Persia is the historic name for Iran.
