This water is our soil

Mehr News Agency, Political Service – Hadi Rezaei: The Persian Gulf is not only a water zone but also part of Iran's identity. A name that has remained immortalized in the labyrinth of history, as a role on stone. Every wave of this bay is a hadith of thousands of years of civilization, resistance, culture and honor. In the face of the name of the Persian Gulf, one cannot just speak with geography; This name is not only on the maps but also engraved on the hearts.

But in recent years, the Persian Gulf has become another battlefield; Not with swords and cannons, but with vocabulary. Created attempts to rename it; Not an act of ignorance, but from hatred and politics. These efforts, like a wind that wants to turn off the sun, are absurd and doomed to failure.

Even the US president, Donald Trump, in one of his speeches, ignored dozens of historical and international custom documents. The move, although accompanied by an encouragement of Arab -speaking audiences, faced a wave of negative reactions from Iranian people around the world to independent experts and even some neutral historians.

Does a name change with repetition? Can authenticity be forgotten by distorting history? Answering these questions, not us, but thousands of historical documents.

The first and most important document is the old maps; From ancient Greeks to medieval Muslims, from Portuguese sailors to European Orientalists, they have all called this blue zone or its equivalent in different languages. In the second century AD, the famous Greek geographer, Ptolemy, has been named Sinus Persicus, or the Persian Gulf. In the following centuries, the same name was also preserved in Islamic maps. Ibn Huql, Masoudi, Maqdisi, and other Muslim geographers have also mentioned this Gulf called the Persian Bahrah.

In the contemporary period, even the United Nations and other international institutions have repeatedly emphasized the recognition of the Persian Gulf name. The UN Secretariat officially announced in the 1980s that the only valid name for this water zone is in the Persian Gulf international documents. Even in British, US, and French official documents in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there is no name except Persian Gulf.

Trying to change this name, not from the heart of history, but from the heart of new politics and hostility. Some Arab Gulf states, whose political existence dates back to the twentieth century, are trying today to rewrite history with money and lobby. But history is stronger than it is to be erased with oil dollars.

Donald Trump's remarks and other politicians may be in the headline for a few minutes, but in the long run, it is in the face of historical reality. No president, no king, no media can stand up to thousands of years. We are not a nation to remain silent against distortion. We are the people who, on the National Gulf Day (May 9), protect the originality of this name. This day is reminiscent of the Iranian victory over the Portuguese in year 6 and the expulsion of foreign forces from the southern coast of the country; Another certificate that the Persian Gulf has always been and will remain Persian. If they take the name of the Persian Gulf, as if they took part of our souls. And we are not people to live unknowingly.

The waves of the Persian Gulf are still talking Persian. In the silence of the southern nights, the breeze passes through the name of the Persian and whispers to the sea: I am a bay of Faryas, no more nor less. We will be the heirs of this big name until the last breath of the guardian.