As a long time reader of your publication, who has kept the volumes of your magazines as treasures of a life time for more than 25 years, I am highly disappointed by your remarks and so-called research of the Persian Gulf. If you are truly conducting research, then I am certain that the historical facts you discover will satisfy your doubts and fulfill your scientific intentions, which I am certain are honorable and untainted by today's political, financial, or personal agenda. Your witty recommendation for a new name, while amusing to some, is reckless and ominously alarms one about researchers and historians who have in the past embarked on the gradual removal of national identities and altering historical facts. I would hope that your written comment was only a knee jerk response to a very serious issue to many Iranians and non-Iranians.

Sincerely yours,
Taher G. Behbehani