perfidy

Iran has banned Patton's favorite magazine, The Economist, for lese majeste, in that the august publication dared to publish a map that referred to the body of water to south of Iran as "Gulf" rather than "Persian Gulf." The National Geographic was banned a while back for subtitling Persian Gulf with "Arabian Gulf." While I think that the mullahs have gone too far, I find myself in stunned agreement. It is the Persian Gulf, that's what it's been called for quite a while now, and renaming it willy-nilly is not the perogative of jackass cartographers no matter who they're working for. Nevertheless, it is widely known that the Mullahs hate our freedom, so everyone go out and subscribe to the Economist so that the terrorists don't win.