Persian Gulf naming dispute Strait of Hormuz as "Basora Fretum" (Strait of Basra). Among all this confusion, the old name gradually reasserted itself in the 17th century, but Turkey still uses the name "Gulf of Basra" in Turkish today. Following British attempts to control the seaway in the late 1830s, the "Times Journal", published in London in 1840, referred to the Persian Gulf as the "Britain Sea", but this name was never used in any other context. The matter remains very contentious as the competing naming conventions are supported by certain governments in internal literature, but also in dealings with other states and international
Persian Gulf Forever and Tonbs Islands, in some editions of the song. With every look I kiss the sky of this land (Iran), for thousand times I take my breath from White River, the sky of Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf Forever My gaze takes brightness from the Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa (Islands) Persian Gulf Forever The Persian Gulf Forever () or the Persian Gulf () also shortly known by Ebi's 1990 album's name The Gulf () is a Persian language political, protest and nationalistic song performed by plenty of Iranian singers, inside and outside the country. Finally, the