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 ...

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.

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 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 ...