{"id":41915,"date":"2025-05-06T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41915"},"modified":"2025-05-06T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:10:05","slug":"media-trump-plans-to-rename-the-persian-gulf-to-the-arabian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41915","title":{"rendered":"Media: Trump plans to rename the &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221; to the &#8220;Arabian Gulf&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The Associated Press quoted US government sources as saying that US President Trump plans to announce changes to US language norms and proposes to call the &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221; the &#8220;Arabian Gulf.&#8221;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250507\/1065347525.html\">Trump<\/a>&nbsp;is said&nbsp;to be planning to raise the decision during a visit to Saudi Arabia. Arab countries have been pushing to change the geographical name of the body of water off Iran&#8217;s southern coast, while Iran has maintained its historical ties to the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This is not the first time Trump has intentionally changed a geographical name. At the end of January this year, Trump issued an executive order to change the name of the &#8220;Gulf of Mexico&#8221; to the &#8220;Gulf of the United States.&#8221; The United Nations said that renaming geographical names is not the privilege of any country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250507\/1065356003.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press quoted US government sources as saying that US President Trump plans to announce changes to US language norms and proposes to call the &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221; the &#8220;Arabian Gulf.&#8221; Trump&nbsp;is said&nbsp;to be planning to raise the decision during a visit to Saudi Arabia. Arab countries have been pushing to change the geographical name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4693,1230,10442],"class_list":["post-41915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gulf","tag-trump","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41918,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions\/41918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}