Talk:Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs

Untitled
This artickle was started by The Honorable Kermanshahi 13:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC).

Nice article, Kermanshahi! Murlock 12:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Total Propaganda
What a one-sided load of propaganda. If I am to believe this mess, the Arabs who lived on an uninhabited island did all the shooting? 82.194.62.200 (talk) 03:31, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

If I am looking on your IP-Adress,I start to understand your outcry ....lol

I deleted Saddam's war goal reference as unsourced, and highly improbable, given that Iraq had (has) no seaport and consequently no deep-water naval capability to carry-out such a goal against Iran, which has many seaports and a Navy.75.90.23.90 (talk) 00:16, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I still don't get it
On 30 November 1971 the Iranian Navy seized the islands under small resistance of the tiny Arab police force stationed there. The Iranians were instructed not to open fire, and the first (and according to some sources only) shots came from the Arab resistance which killed three Iranian marines and injured one. According to some sources, the Arab civilian population of Greater Tunb was then deported, but according to others the island had already been uninhabited for some time earlier.[4]

So the marines were shot and killed by the inhabitants of an uninhabited island? This one does take the biscuit... Bazuz (talk) 13:54, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * By this account, the troops would have been shot by the police force stationed on an uninhabited island. There is a big difference between people living on an island, and people temporarily stationed there. Also other accounts claim the island had 120 or 150 inhabitants, depending on the account.Ff11 (talk) 21:09, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Unscientific poll
Regarding the poll being posted here repeatedly:
 * 1. Reliability of YouGov is not clear.
 * 2. Even if YouGov is credible, they say they have used "online panel" which is the worst method of polling in MENA where many are not online-savy (older generation, people from less-rich Arab countries, etc.), resulting in biased sample, hence not being able to claim that your population (Arabs) have the same views as the respondents to this poll have. You can get confirmation of this from any survey specialist who knows the region, this is a relatively basic issue in survey methodology.

In conclusion, it would be misleading and scientifically inaccurate to call this poll a true representation of the opinions of general Arab population. Farmanesh (talk) 23:49, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

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Non-neutral POV?
This article doesn't read like it was written from a neutral point of view. In particular the additions of this revision seem to be biased, e.g. "littoral [sic] dictatorships', but the previous revision seems to be biased as well? I'm not knowledgeable on the subject so can't improve it myself. alexconlin (talk) 23:17, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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Repeated use of Mattair source
If this source is going to be reverted to, I think this is ridiculous as it counters an unbiased third party, mentioned in previous sentence; it is as though to find something contrary to a neutral observer and of a non-authoritative source. Please stop reversing my edits! Earwigwas (talk) 04:15, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello. I don't understand your statement. How is Mattair biased? He is a US based author and a third non-invovled party. The information is also attributed to him. In a similar sense then, multiple information in the article cited by Iranian Iranologist Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, including the previous sentence, may also be called biased depending on who you ask. This sounds like WP:IJUSTDONTLIKEIT. Please provide a valid reason for your removal of cited information. Thanks --Wikiemirati (talk) 04:28, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Mattair's work cited is published by the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research, which is a government-sponsored institution. So, it is no wonder to see a publication of the ECSSR parroting the official position of the UAE. Pahlevun (talk) 20:25, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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