February 07 2020
The Islamic Republic has castigated both South Korea and French President Emmanuel Macron for failing to address the Persian Gulf by its proper name. The South Korean foible occurred in a press release saying its Navy would extend its anti-piracy patrols from Somalia to the Gulf of Aden and “the Arab-Persian Gulf.” Macron came a cropper when he tweeted that the French Navy had been sent on a mission to “the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab-Persian Gulf.”