The U.S.and Iran are entangled in a dispute over the Persian Gulf nation's nuclear program, which the United States contends is a cover for developing weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The countries that really matter are the ones that -the Arabian--are the Persian Gulf countries; I was just talking to people at the World Economic Forum about that.

有问题的国家是那些,阿拉伯的。。。是那些波斯湾附近的国家;,我才在世界经济论坛跟人讨论过这个。

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China has long been listed as a "country of particular concern" by the State Department for its record on religious freedom, as has U.S.Persian Gulf ally Saudi Arabia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The threat,made on December 31 in a message posted on an extremist Internet Web site, prompted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to elevate the risk for all U.S.military and commercial ships sailing through an area stretching from Somalia to the Persian Gulf.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

Ileana Ros Lehtinen is the ranking committee Republican "It should be clear that unless we impose the maximum pressure on Iran, and this bill is a major step forward in that direction, the regime will continue its march toward acquiring nuclear weapons, dominating the Persian Gulf, and expanding its network of radical militants around the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28