Iran, the little cry babies, to sue Google
TPM sends a link to BBC which reports that the country of Iran is suing the company, Google because on Google Maps, they didn’t label the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula as the Persian Gulf. Instead, Google just left it blank.
In a rare show of unity, authorities and the opposition jointly condemned the decision. Thousands of Iranians vented their anger on blogs and in online forums.
Google rejected the criticism, saying the body of water had not been labelled from the start.
A Google spokesperson told the BBC it did not name every place in the world although he was unable to provide an example of a similar case of a missing landmark.
Interactive world map Google Earth, meanwhile, describes the waterway both as Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf.
Iran has repeatedly criticised [sic] countries and organisations [sic] that do not use the term Persian Gulf.
According to the article, there are several examples of the Iranians pouting that the Gulf isn’t called “Persian” by everyone. Good for them focusing on the important stuff between hanging gays, stoning rape victims and seeding the world with IEDs and EFPs.
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Let’s name it the: “Gulf of Assholes.”
Maybe it should be Gulf of Water, Country of Assholes? What kills me is the ‘fable’ of the iranian army being ‘battled harden combat veteran’s but who were they fighting? They fought the iragi’s for eight (8) years! Our soldier boys and girls kicked their asses in 96 hours?!
Gulf Of Araby = Gulf Of TYRANTS .
@2 I know right? They love to push how efficient and deadly their military is, just a lot of posturing. Remember Sadaam claiming the Euphrates would run red with the blood of americans?
I had to check to see if this was a story that we had written about at The Duffel Blog. This crap is actually true?
I’d label it Gulf Of Israel, just to piss em ALL off.
What court will Iran use to sue google? In a hypothetical moment imagine being serviced papers by the ayatollah …. imagine your face . Made me giggle like a little girl.
Achdiminijihadist was just feeling ignored and wanted to prove he’s still an idiot. Some might call it the Napoleon complex, but he’s too small a tool for that.
If Google really wants to get his panties in a wad, they should relabel the land to the East of the Gulf “Persia,” and carve out a land in the North called “Kurdistan.” Then start publicizing that Star of David that was located at the Tehran airport for 30 years, with the Ayatollah and Ackdiminijihadist flying in and out.
As to naming bodies of water, yeah, there is rightfully a “Persian Gulf,” named for an Aryan race that believed in Human Rights, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Speech, and Citizenship in the Ancient World. The Persian Culture was destroyed with the invasion of Mullahs and Ayatollahs.
There is also an “Arabian Sea” south of the Persian Gulf, but evidently Ackdiminijihadist can’t figure out that there’s a difference in location. Then again, he also can’t decide if he believes the Holocaust “didn’t happen,” or was “a good start.”
But I guess he figures if Google will bow to the Chinese Communists in censorship, and CNN will bow to the Islamist government of Iran, then Google will bow to the Islamists of Iran as well. One day though, the Persians will rise up and overthrow their tyrant overlords of the Ayatollah & Achdiminihjihadists, hopefully returning a once great country to its rightful place amongst Honorable and Noble Nations, that love Freedom, and the rights of the Citizenry.
Then I’m going to sue Iran for allowed their President to traipse around on the world stage with that same half assed attempt at a beard. The only one more stylistically challenged was our favorite recently departed Dear Leader. Being insane is never an excuse for poor fashion choices.
@Yat Yas They ARE battle hardened, it’s just repeatedly running full tilt through a giant minefield has very limited offensive applications.
@9 If thats the case we could extend your case to cover the turbans and tacky robes they wear all the time too.
@C.Q. Done! My friend Corrie promised me one free frivolous lawsuit when she graduated law school. Now she works at a prestigious New York law firm so I think we stand a decent chance of winning this.
I considered adding in all the African Generalissimos, but I think they’d machete the poor court process server to death before no showing the proceedings.
@6 Priceless! We need to add the Moon to school maps, like Alaska and Hawaii. In it’s own box, just to cheese everyone off….
@13 Agreed. How do we make this happen?
We’ve been referring to it as the Arabian Gulf since before the Shah was overthrown. The Persians can go whine to Xerxes for all I care.
You could call it the Sunni Shi’ite Latrine.
The Arabian Gulf or Arabian Sea is a DIFFERENT body of water, distinctly separated by the Straits of Hormuz, and to keep them annoyed, sometimes called the Gulf of Oman.
Of course, unless Germany starts suing that people call their southern city Munich, instead of Munchen, or Germany or Allmagne, instead of Deutschland, it really doesn’t matter that the Islamists take issue with what we call them.
Wonder why so many folks continue to call it the Persian Gulf War if there has been no Persian Gulf since way before that War? When we were there, saw plenty of maps that ID’d the Persian Gulf as, well, the Persian Gulf.
Maybe we should label Tehran “Future Parking Lot” on Google Earth and see how they like that.
I propose renaming the Gulf of Bacha Baci since that is a popular pastime throughout the region.
Better still, call it the “Sea of Bacon” and watch their heads explode.
Ann, (@14) Your guess is as good as mine, probably better. Maybe after elections, some newly elected congressman/woman with some moxie…