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01/04/2005:

"Iran wins 'victory' over National Geographic"

TEHRAN: Iran's foreign minister boasted of scoring a "victory" over National Geographic after the U.S. magazine agreed to remove a reference to the "Arabian Gulf" and stick with the "Persian Gulf" in its atlas.

"National Geographic's climbdown and correction of this fake name it had used for the Persian Gulf ... is a victory for every Iranian," Kamal Kharrazi was quoted as saying Monday by the state news agency IRNA.

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