Persian Gulf

"The Persian Gulf is now under attack once again. Can't believe that would've happened. Now these Iranian bastards are trying to destroy Saudi Arabia, and bring the end of the powerful rule of the House of Saud here in most of the Arabian Peninsula once and for all."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Another Persian Gulf War

The Persian Gulf (Persian: خلیج فارس‎, translit. Xalij-e Fârs, lit. 'Gulf of Fars') is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline.