International conference explores Persian Gulf capacities, challenges

Executive Secretary of the conference, Mehrdad Karimi, told reporters that underlining the role and status of the Persian Gulf in geopolitical, historical, legal and sovereignty aspects is among the most important programs of the conference.

Karimi said that in this conference Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Khamenei, Friday prayers leader of Qeshm, representatives from Iraq and Bahrain and also head of the UNESCO Committee will deliver speeches.

The domestic and foreign guests, he further remarked, will present articles on Britain’s counterfeiting the name of the Persian Gulf, archeology in the Persian Gulf, the intangible heritage of this international waterway, and the Iranian navigation knowledge.

The Portuguese colonialist forces who arrived in the Iranian islands in the southern part of the country in early 16thcentury for economic activities after becoming aware of the defense of the Iranian forces against the aggressive Ottoman forces by erecting military establishment (three forts in Qeshm, Larak and Hormuz) attempted to occupy the islands.

The three islands were in the occupation of the Portuguese for about 117 years until the Iranian forces under the command of Emamqoli Khan attacked positions of foreign forces and forced them to evacuate the three islands.