TY  - BOOK
AU  - MATTAIR Thomas C
TI  - The three occupied UAE Islands: the Tunbs and Abu Musa 
SN  - 9948007646 (pbk)
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Abu Dhabi
PB  - The Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research
KW  - PERSIAN GULF ISLANDS
KW  - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
KW  - MARITIME BOUNDARY DISPUTES
KW  - IRAN
KW  - TUNB ISLANDS
KW  - ABU MUSA ISLAND
N2  - Comprehensive survey of the  history and current political and legal positions on three small islands in the southern end of the Persian Gulf. Strategically located close to the Strait of Hormuz the islands have long been the subject of sovereignty disputes. Claimed by the UAE as successor to the Trucial States the islands were forcibly occupied by Iran after British forces withdrew from the Gulf at the end of the 1960s. This book provides a thorough analysis of the competing claims
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