Arabian Gulf lies between the Iranian plateau and the Arabian Peninsula. Iran was originally known as Persia and that is where the gulf derived its name from. Since the 1960’s there has been a row about the naming of this gulf between the Arabs and the Persians. The Arabs feel that it should be called the Arabian Gulf.

Arabian Gulf or the Persian Gulf: is the arm of the Arabian Sea, extending from Gulf of Oman in the south to along the Shatt-AL Arab in the north. Its length around 965 km from Shatt-Al Arab to the Hormuz fjord, which links it in the Gulf of Oman.
The area of the Arabian Gulf approximately 233 100 km², and varies in width between a maximum of about 370 km to a minimum of 55 km in the Hormuz fjord. A maximum depth of the Arabian Gulf is 90 m. The gulf separates the Arabian Peninsula and south-western of Iran, and overlooking it eight countries including Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman and Iran.

Arabian Gulf is very important economically. Most of the world's oil exports through the movement through the ports along its shores. Most of the countries bordering the Arabian Gulf coast are the exporter of oil.

In addition, The Arabian Gulf includes oil and gas fields. In 25 May 1981, arab countries overlooking the Arabian Gulf formed a political and economic union in particular called: "Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States".
They are an Arab regional organization composed of six members of the overlooks the Arabian Gulf are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain. Council was based on the linking the six countries of their special relations, common features, similar systems, and unity of purpose.