TEHRAN -- The Iranian Office for Supervising Foreign Correspondents and Media is angry about the distortion of the name of the Persian Gulf in a program on France 24, an international news and current affairs television channel.

“We will seriously pursue the issue,” office director Alireza Shiravi told the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency on Sunday.
The office is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
Shiravi said that France 24 has no office in Iran, but the Culture Ministry will admonish the TV channel through the Iranian embassy in France.
France 24 repeatedly used a false name for the body of water instead of the correct name of Persian Gulf during a program on the relations between Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, which was broadcast on December 4.