Persian Gulf naming dispute region, who did not use the term "Persian Gulf". In 2011 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a speech to the United Nations General Assembly during which he said that the only correct name of the sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula was the Persian Gulf, and he dismissed the use of any other names as illegitimate and void. Iran designates 30 April as National Persian Gulf Day. The date coincides with the anniversary of Abbas I of Persia's successful military campaign when the Portuguese navy was driven out of the Strait of Hormuz in the Capture of Ormuz (1622). The
Persian Gulf University Persian Gulf University Persian Gulf University (in Persian: دانشگاه خلیج فارس) is a university in Bushehr Province of Iran. Established in 1991 as Bushehr University, the university has 7 schools, offering 24 bachelor's degrees, and 33 master's degrees and 3 Ph.D degrees. Persian Gulf University is located in the coastal city of Bushehr. It is a state university under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Established in 1991 as Bushehr University, it started as a "Technical & Engineering College" with two majors of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Today, Persian Gulf University (PGU) consists of eight faculties