Iran Planning to Create "Persian Gulf" Province
News number: 8101300793 18:57 | 2012-04-23
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian parliamentarians plan to introduce a bill for the
creation of a new province and tourist resort to be called the "Persian
Gulf" province with Abu Musa Island as its capital.

"A decision has been made to create the tourism and culture province of the
Persian Gulf with Abu Musa as its capital," member of the parliament's
Councils and Interior Policy Commission Vali Esmayeeli told FNA on Monday.

He said that based on the bill, the fake name of the Iranian island, Abu
Musa, will be changed to "Bu Musa" because "Boum" (in Persian) means Place
and "Musa" is the name of that region.

Esmayeeli underlined that the decision to prepare the bill was taken after
the UAE officials uttered some "gibberish words" on the ownership of the
Iranian Island of Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf.

The UAE which says it does not accept international treaties and agreements
about the ownership of Abu Musa Island, recently called its ambassador from
Tehran after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the Island earlier
this month.

Also, on April 13, the foreign ministers of the six-nation Persian Gulf
Cooperation Council (PGCC) held an emergency meeting in Doha and issued a
statement against the Iranian President's visit to the Iranian island.

In reply, Iran said that the visit was an internal issue only related to
Iran's state sovereignty.

International documents clearly show that the three islands of the Greater
Tunb, the Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa which were historically owned by Iran,
temporarily fell to British control in 1903. The islands were returned to
Iran based on an agreement in 1971 before the UAE was born.

Iran has repeatedly declared that its ownership of the three islands is
unquestionable.

Under international law, no state can defy any agreement, which came into
being before its establishment.

Yet, the UAE continues to make territorial claims against the Islamic
Republic despite historical evidence and international regulations.