{"id":15916,"date":"2013-09-24T13:09:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15916"},"modified":"2013-09-24T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:22:30","slug":"fifa-makes-uae-to-recognize-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/09\/24\/fifa-makes-uae-to-recognize-persian-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA makes UAE recognize the &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 TEHRAN, <strong>The international football governing body made a bold statement on political influence on football agendas in Arab countries around the Persian Gulf by officially recognizing the historical name of the waterway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates football federation had revoked the historic name &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221; and used the internationally unrecognized term &#8220;Arabian Gulf&#8221; to rename their football league.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab action faced intense objection by Iranians such that Iran football federation banned Iranian professional players from playing for clubs in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the Iranian Football Federation, through the Department of State, condemned the falsification of historic documents.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Iranian Football Federation sent a letter to FIFA demanding action against this politically motivated act.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, FIFA and its website has now explicitely confirmed the correctness of the historic name of the &#8220;Persian Gulf&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 TEHRAN, The international football governing body made a bold statement on political influence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":12342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3697,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}