¹ The arm of the Indian Ocean that separates the Iranian and Arabian plateaus in southwest Asia has been known as the Persian Gulf for over two thousand years. See generally, Edmund Bosworth, C., “The Nomenclature of the Persian Gulf,” in Cottrell, Alvin J., gen. ed., The Persian Gulf States (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1980), pp. xvii-xxxivGoogle Scholar, reprinted in Iranian Studies 30 (1997): 77–94CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

² The practice of calling the gulf “Arabian” began by the Bahraini separatists in the 1930s as a rebuff to the Iranian government's continued claim over the Bahrain Islands on historical grounds. See Marlowe, John, “Arab-Persian Rivalry in the Persian Gulf,” in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 51:1 (1964): 23–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar (30); (minutes of remarks by Hazim el Khalidi).

³ Bin Salman cites two secondary sources for this assertion and it is not made clear which primary source may have contained the bravado.

⁴ See Amirahmadi, Hooshang, ed. Small Island, Big Politics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), 162Google Scholar, Appendix 1:161–175.

⁵ Mojtahed-Zadeh, Pirouz, Security and Territoriality in the Persian Gulf (Richmond, England: Curzon Press, 1999), 229Google Scholar, Appendix III: 227–235.

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⁷ David J. McMunn, “Great Britain's Withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, 1968-1971: An Analysis of Policy and the Process” (Unpublished Master's Thesis, no. 4304, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1974), 112.

⁸ Lorimer, J. G., Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman, and Central Arabia (Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, 1915) (Westmead, England: Gregg International, 1970), vol. 1, 2138Google Scholar.