Airlines transponder codes: Now impound-able!

I understand the trouble in relations in the middle east, but this is just silly.

"Iran has warned that airlines will be banned from flying into its airspace, unless they use the term "Persian Gulf" on their in-flight monitors.

The transport minister has threatened to impound planes that fail to comply.

...To call it the Gulf, annoys the authorities; to call it the Arabian Gulf, infuriates them even more."

I read this and thought to myself... Okay, Iran, a sovereign nation, has trouble recognizing the gulf as Arabian, and prefers to call it the Persian gulf... I can kind of understand that... Americans have done similar things, to be sure.  Though threatening to impound the planes seems SEVERE if you ask me.

That's when I read the last line of the story.

"As for the minister, Hamid Behbahani, it may or may not be a coincidence that he is making a stand on this patriotic matter at a time when he is facing calls for his impeachment for alleged lack of competence."

Ah.  ...Now that makes more sense.