Iran Intercepts Emirati-Owned Vessel Due to Document Problem
News ID: 1141204 Service: Politics
July, 26, 2016 - 18:18
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/07/26/1141204/iran-intercepts-emirati-owned-vessel-due-to-document-problem

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A cargo ship owned by an Emirati company sailing across
the Persian Gulf with the flag of Panama was intercepted at a southern
Iranian port on Tuesday after maritime control detected exclusion of the
Persian Gulf’s full name from the ship’s documents.

Aboutaleb Gerailoo, an official at the Port and Maritime Organization of the
southwestern province of Khuzestan, said the Persian Gulf’s name was missing
from the documents of the ship, named Feodora.

Iranian authorities stopped the ship after noticing that its documents
contain a “fake term” instead of Persian Gulf, he added, stressing that all
foreign vessels sailing through Iran’s maritime routes have to use the
historically and internationally-recognized name of the Persian Gulf.

The ship was interrupted at the port of Bandar Imam Khomeini, and will not
be offered any service by Iran until the fake name in its papers are
corrected, the official said.

The name of the body of water separating the Iranian plateau from the
Arabian Peninsula, is internationally known as the Persian Gulf, named after
the land of Persia or Iran.

However, for years, some Arab states have disputed historical and legal
evidence of the name of the Persian Gulf.

World maps from ancient times, dating back to 500 B.C., have all been
referring to this body of water as the Persian Gulf.