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If Trump renames the Persian gulf, it will not just be a mistake, it’ll be unforgivable revisionism that echoes millennia of erasure, cultural degeneration, and betrayal. "Two hundred years of silence" or two centuries of silence refers to the first 200 years after Iran was conquered, where everything about our language, culture, linguistic heritage, and deeply ancient traditions were sought to be erased and replaced with Islamic traditions and the Arabic language. We aren't even allowed to relay facts and history without being accused of being bigots and racists. We're handcuffed from telling the story. Renaming the Persian Gulf to the Arabian gulf is just another attempted erasure, not just of a name, but an identity that has existed for more than 2,500 years since the Achaemenid Empire. To many, even the fight for preservation of our history is an insult. Whatever people want to believe, it was the Persian Gulf, it is the Persian Gulf, and it will always be the Persian Gulf.
