National Geographic Gives up

If the title of this post doesn't make sense to you go ahead and have a look at this! NG removed the name Arabian Gulf next to the Persian Gulf, however they included a description as follows: "Historically and most commonly known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water is referred to by some as the Arabian Gulf." Here are the previous and current maps, respectively:





Another controversial name used by NG was the name of Iranian island, Kish. NG had called that Qeys! As an Iranian I had never heard of that name before NG used that. They had used an alternative name for another Iranian island, namely Lavan. Both names "Qeys" and "Sheykh Sho'eyb" are Arabic names. Here are the photos:





This is not all NG did. They even called three Iranian islands, Abu Musa, Greater and Lesser Tonbs as "occupied by Iran(Claimed by U.A.E.)"!





I think it was clear from the begining that all what they did was politically motivated and it had nothing to do with professionalism!

Here you may see the previous and current maps.
P.S. (29 Dec at 11 AM): NG changed its map back to the old version!!

P.P.S.(29 Dec, 2:40 PM): Here is another map that I found in their website. No sign of Arabian Gulf. However three other mistakes are remained. Have a look!



P.P.P.S.(30 Dec 3:25 PM) Again they removed "Arabian Gulf" and added the above explenation and the rest of the story is as I wrote before!