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Re:Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google by azth on Sunday September 23, 2012 @04:30PM (#4561939)
> Iran threatened in May to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula nameless.

A search on Google Maps yields: We could not understand the location arabian gulf.

Persian Gulf though shows up.

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Re:Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google by Sahebi on Sunday September 23, 2012 @05:57PM (#4562220)
No, Iran just run this project for "Against freedom of expression"
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