It's been more than 10 years now, but I recall a friend of mine (Arab but living in America for a while) showing me websites and Google bombs that propped up content to change the perception that the name was not Arabian gulf but Persian Gulf. It was linked to Persian technologists who wanted to change this perception.
A funny example of this was that in America, if you googled "Arabian gulf", the top result was a fake old school Internet Explorer 404 page with the title "Error: Gulf not found. You may be looking for Persian Gulf"
Propaganda might be a strong word. It was more that some Arabs I knew in the west believed that Persians were trying to change the name, and not that the Arabs were the ones who actually changed it in the 60s.
A funny example of this was that in America, if you googled "Arabian gulf", the top result was a fake old school Internet Explorer 404 page with the title "Error: Gulf not found. You may be looking for Persian Gulf"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220437752/figure/fi...
Propaganda might be a strong word. It was more that some Arabs I knew in the west believed that Persians were trying to change the name, and not that the Arabs were the ones who actually changed it in the 60s.
I was googling around now, I didn't realize Trump also used Arabian gulf recently: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4983604/dona...
It's a hot button topic!