Iran sharply condemned President Donald Trump’s reported plans to start referring to the Persian Gulf as the “Gulf of Arabia” or the “Arabian Gulf” in his latest push to expand his global stamp.

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    8 hours ago

    I think I’m hitting a bit of a language barrier. What i understand is that they told you not to callt hem Americans? I feel like I need context. I wouldn’t want to be called American in public to avoid confusion. But not in that context

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      7 hours ago

      It was something along the lines of well we’re all Americans,

      No no no, don’t lump us in there

      I’m from the US but we’re all from North America.

      Oh, sorry, you know, we don’t really even want to be associated with that term, you guys can have that one

      It’s like having neighbors so bad that you don’t even want to mention you’re in the same community

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        2 hours ago

        My evil master plan was changing the continent’s name. You can have that one or admit that your “name” is ours too

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          8 minutes ago

          I mean, we tried to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico so it sounds fair.