SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The Persian Gulf. It has been called that for over 2,000 years.

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Let's say those two words and sit with them. The Persian Gulf. It has been called that for over 2,000 years. In ancient Greek sources. In Roman sources. In medieval Islamic geography. In every map made by every civilization that sailed it or studied it across two millennia of recorded history. It is called the Persian Gulf because Persia, Iran, sits on its northern shore. Because Persian civilization shaped the waters, the trade routes, the ports, the culture of that body of water for longer than most of the current Gulf states have existed as political entities. Iran is not a foreign power projecting into the Gulf. Iran is the Gulf's northern shore. And the arrangement that has been constructed, where Iran is treated as a threat to Gulf stability while American carrier groups park in Iranian-adjacent waters and American bases on Gulf soil are used to conduct operations against Iran, requires a profound act of geographic and historical denial to sustain. Iran is not threatening the Gulf. Iran is in the Gulf. Iran has always been in the Gulf. What is new is not Iran's presence. What is new is the American presence. What is new is the arrangement that pays for the American presence to be maintained against the country that has been on the Gulf's northern shore for three thousand years. The Persian Gulf is not a platform for killing Persians. Iran is telling you this clearly. The clarity will not get clearer.

4:53 PM · Mar 26, 2026