The spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry has strongly criticized French President Emmanuel Macron for using a fake name for the Persian Gulf, urging him to correct the mistake.

Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, addressing Emmanuel Macron, wrote on Twitter: "The body of water located in southern Iran has only one name, the Persian Gulf."

Mousavi described the French military presence in the Persian Gulf as wrong as Macron's mistake. 

I remind Monsieur Macron that the gulf located south of Iran has only one name and that is the #PersianGulf. Your military presence in the Persian Gulf is as wrong as your naming it. Both mistakes are huge but compensable.

— S.A MOUSAVI (@SAMOUSAVI9) January 18, 2020

Mousavi released the tweet in three languages: French, English, and Persian.

Macron recently used a fake name in a tweet to refer to the Persian Gulf.

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