TEHRAN — They were just two small words, a parenthetical aside on a National Geographic map. But that’s all it ... water that cuts along the coasts of Iran and its Arab neighbors.

If you look carefully at a map of Iran, you can see that the western ... But because of its size and geography, Iran is not a country that can be easily traversed, much less conquered.

Iran has been using geography to its advantage however. When looking at the map of the Strait of Hormuz, one can see how precarious the shipping situation could become if Iran decided to use ...

Iran banned National Geographic reporters and sales of the magazine ... included the “Arabian Gulf” name in parentheses on the map. “As a reaction, we are banning their journalists from ...

Iran had said in November that it was banning the new edition of the atlas, as well as National Geographic journalists, until the map for the Gulf region was changed. It objected to the eighth ...

Iran yesterday celebrated a National Geographic map revision by naming a major highway after the "Persian Gulf." Iran yesterday celebrated a National Geographic map revision by naming a major ...

Iran's culture ministry said the atlas published by U.S.-based National Geographic labelled the waters as the "Persian Gulf", but also included the "Arabian Gulf" name in parentheses on the map.

Iran crowed victory after it learned that National Geographic had revised its world ... Gulf but on December 30 it said it was changing its map to drop the Arabian Gulf in parenthesis.