TEHRAN, June 15 (UPI) -- The government of Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely "the Gulf" in a map in the latest edition.
State television made the announcement Wednesday night, noting it is the second time the government has made such a move to protect the country's Persian roots.
In November 2004, it banned the National Geographic atlas when a new edition was published with the term "Arabian Gulf" in parenthesis beside the more commonly used Persian Gulf.
Criticism on the Persian Journal's Web site was more scathing, calling the London-published Economist "nothing but another worthless tabloid" that alters the news to appease various readers.
There was no immediate response to the ban Thursday on The Economist's Web site.
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Let’s face it; Ahmadinejad and company hate the concept of democracy and anyone who promotes it. Can a government, capable of both hiding a uranium enrichment program for 15 years and banning reputable publications for simply adhering to modern journalistic shorthand, be trusted when it says it has no intention of producing nuclear weapons?
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