The mullahs who run Iran are a prickly lot. Many Arabs, especially since the rise of pan-Arabism in the 1960s, have insisted on calling what's been known as the Persian Gulf for centuries--even by Arabs--by a different name: the Arabian Gulf. This nomenclature controversy has so angered Iranians they
have threatened to ban airlines that call the body of water by
that other name from its airspace
.
The opinion of fish of the Gulf is unknown.
Meanwhile the world's greatest newspaper, the
Tehran Times, reports that an Iranian art bureau director is in a huff because Turkey is claiming credit for calligraphy styles that he claims are Iranian.
These crybabies may soon have nuclear bombs at their disposal.
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