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</head><body text="#000000">Personally I would concur. The Persian Gulf
has been known by this name for many years by non-locals and since they
use the map we probably should consider them.<br>
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John<br>
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<span>Mostafa Ahangarha wrote on 12/7/2021 6:33 PM:</span><br>
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cite="mid:7d38f472-b638-043d-8cf4-9fda5e442348@riseup.net">In general, I
am sorry for seeing the way this "conversation" is taking
forward. Some thing to point out:
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- Nobody here represent any community. We are discussing all as
individuals.
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- There are very good reasons (internationally recognition, historic
evidence) for using Persian Gulf as name. Persian Gulf is not a name
made up by Iranian. It is a historic name, recognized internationally
and used widely. Do not reduce the issue to some thing else.
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- Persian Gulf is an international water body. So we cannot expect the
international community to use the name we like.
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- The attitude for blaming Iranian community for action of some random
people should stop somewhere. As we cannot hold Arabs responsible for
some stupid action of some random user, you cannot do the same again an
again and again to Iranian. You cannot take advantage of this to push
your political agenda. Not a good excuse.
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- Since the local name is reflected in name:fa and name:ar, pushing for
imposition of any other name than Persian Gulf on name tag proves the
very political agenda. Don't do that.
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- Voting in no Telegram/Matrix/Slack/... has any real meaning. Don't
claim to be representative of OSM community. Simply don't. Neither you
are representative of Arabs, nor me or Ebrahim Nejati are representative
of Iranians. Let's not mess up here.
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- Don't let bullies to push their opinion. Don't let them to misuse your
good will.
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It is such a ironic situation to see few politically motivated people
want to make decision for the name of an international water body.
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Otherwise for clear reasons, the name of this water body has been and is
Persian Gulf. Whenever the international community decided to using
another name, that time we can consider change. Yet I would still
support removing name tag to reduce sensitivities.
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