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Shafaq News- Baghdad/ Tehran
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Haibet Al-Halbousi on
Thursday posted a photograph featuring the Arabic designation “Arabian Gulf,”
after his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf shared an image bearing
the Persian name.
#الخليج_العربي pic.twitter.com/K5VyYudX6Y
— هيبت الحلبوسي (@HaibetHalbousi) August 20, 2026
During his visit to Baghdad on Wednesday, Ghalibaf
posted a photograph on X with a regional map behind him bearing the
Persian-language label “Persian Gulf.” Al-Halbousi followed with his own image
in front of a map bearing the Arabic term “Arabian Gulf.”
— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) August 19, 2026
The Gulf, a 241,000-square-kilometer
(93,000-square-mile) waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, has long
been the subject of a naming dispute: Tehran officially uses “Persian Gulf,”
while Iraq and other Arab countries commonly use “Arabian Gulf.”