Texans still call it Gulf of Mexico . This is a respect issue, or lack there of in this case. Zealous nationalism and anti-iranianism/anti-Shia perpetrated by the same guys who bring you ISIS, Charlie, and Peshawar attack. Same guys who are buddies with USA and Israel yet claim to be the champions of Islam lol what a joke . Face it Arabia gave the Muslims the prophet , but without Iranian and Turkic peoples, there would be no golden age of Islam, or Islam on any influential scale at all. The majority of the heavy weights of Islamic thinking were from the iranian world, don't make me list them and embarrass the Arabs! The contribution of gulf Arabs was minimal if at all even comparable !!
Standard of living ? Take a look around you, majority of Iranians are intelligent, hard working, independent and well deserving individuals . Our women are gorgeous and men are smart as hell and killin it physically too! They are #1 in basketball in Asia. They were beating France Brazil Argentina USA in volleyball in their first appearance at the worlds come on !!! , their art music movies and food is world class, and they won heaps of medals at the Olympics while of the entire Arab world Egypt won a single bronze and they have their own historical trajectory that is A separate type of Arabic than te assholes who propagate and hate on iran . So where a your standard of livig now ?
To be honest the worst thing that happened to "gulf Arabs " is the billions in oil money that made you skip decades of real human quality and growth and try to skip your way into quality . Iranian world dates to ancient Aryan's of Central Asia who invented the fucking wheel !! Masters of engineering for 3 millennia !! A true historical trajectory that explains the deep roots and culture . Yes irans well was poisoned, but it matters not who moderates iran, you cannot kill that depth of history and quality over night , and nor can you replicate it with billions of dollars . I've been to Qatar ,and UAE , bunch of miserable Filipinos and Indians mimicking western service industry and soooo poorly, because it ain't real baby, it ain't you... And this my friends is why it always has been and always will be the persian gulf . /end rant , everyone stfu and watch the game. I still respect gulf Arabs despite all of this, especially Omani amazing people , and I have many Kuwaiti and Saudi Friends, peace and love.