Persian Gulf Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf (), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline. The Persian Gulf was a battlefield of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers. It is the namesake of the 1991 Gulf War, the largely air- and land-based conflict that followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The gulf has many
Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf August 1969 PFLOAG captured the town of Rakhyut. In 1974 the organisation was divided into two separate bodies: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. The PFLOAG's activities were at its peak in the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman. Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf The Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (, abbreviated PFLOAG), later renamed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf (), was a Marxist and Arab nationalist revolutionary organisation in the Persian Gulf Arab