An Iranian hacking team has hacked about 100 Arab websites, including key Arab government, university and company websites to protest the change of the name of Persian Gulf into 'Arabian Gulf, said an Iranian hacking team director in southern province of Yazd.
Director of an Iranian group, who call themselves the 'Mafia Hacking Team', Behrouz Kamalian told on Tuesday that his team had posted a map with the message with 'The correct name is Persian Gulf' written across the top on homepages of newspapers from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Iraq.
Kamalian said his team had hacked the websites to condemn the change in the historical name and its replacement with a forged name on the websites.
"In the hacking, a new homepage was added to the websites with the name of Persian Gulf on it," he added.
Leading Arab press websites, i.e. the websites of the UAE's Al-Khaleej newspaper, of the Arab League Gulf, of Iraq's Higher Education Ministry, of the UAE's Abu Dhabi Police Office, of Saudi Arabia's Mayadin University, of the UAE's People's Board, and of Oman's Gas Company, were hacked to protest the waterway being called the 'Arabian', instead of its authentic name Persian Gulf.
The main page of the websites was replaced with a substitute page carrying a message and picture. The text on the site reads: 'The correct name is Persian Gulf, which always has been, and will always remain, Persian.'Below it was an image that seemed like the hacker's trademark, carrying his name before a map of Iran, with the 'Arabian Gulf' labeled as Persian.The incident comes just weeks after Iranians rallied outside the UAE Embassy in Tehran to demand the waterway be called the Persian, and not the spurious 'Arabian', Gulf. --IRNA
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