Iran protests to Iraq over Gulf football cup name

Iran has protested to Iraq over the usage of the call “Arabian Gulf” for a nearby soccer opposition held withinside the neighboring country, country media said Wednesday.

The Islamic republic insists the frame of water must be known as Persian in place of Arabian, and has again and again raised the difficulty with nations and businesses that discuss with it otherwise.

Iraq on Friday welcomed Arab country wide groups from throughout the vicinity to its southern town of Basra for the twenty fifth version of the opposition formally regarded as “Arabian Gulf Cup.”

It is the primary time Iraq has hosted the biennial opposition — usually known as the “Gulf Cup” — because it changed into released in 1979.

“We summoned the Iraqi ambassador” on Sunday over the difficulty, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said, quoted with the aid of using country information business enterprise IRNA.

“Although we’ve got strategic, brotherly and deep family members with Iraq, we’ve got genuinely expressed our protest approximately this issue,” he said.

“We pondered the sensitivity of the first rate country of Iran to the usage of the precise and whole time period of Persian Gulf to the Iraqi side.”

The call of the essential oil delivery lane has for years been a bone of rivalry among Iran and its Arab neighbors.

The 2010 version of the Islamic Solidarity Games, because of have taken area in Tehran, changed into postponed and later canceled over the dispute.

In the equal year, Iran warned that airways the usage of the time period “Arabian Gulf” on inflight maps could be barred from its airspace.

In 2016, Oman Air switched off a map that labelled the waterway as the “Persian Gulf”, after a typhoon of grievance on social media.

In 2012, Iran criticized Internet large Google for leaving the waterway anonymous on its on-line map services.