Iran bans The Economist magazine

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The government of Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely the Gulf in a map in the latest edition.

State television made the announcement Wednesday night, noting it is the second time the government has made such a move to protect the country's Persian roots.

In November 2004, it banned the National Geographic atlas when a new edition was published with the term Arabian Gulf in parenthesis beside the more commonly used Persian Gulf.

Criticism on the Persian Journal's Web site was more scathing, calling the London-published Economist nothing but another worthless tabloid that alters the news to appease various readers
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"persian Gulf = Gulf in a map" :rofl: thats pretty funny... Iran doesn't have a sense of humor