It's not the first time a geographically controversial search result has got Google in trouble with the world's touchy nationalists, but this lot, when they threaten to wipe enemies off the map, may soon have the means.

The caption for an amateur video, shown right, shows up high in searches for Tabriz, and implies the Iranian city should in fact be part of neighboring Azerbaijan. Cue outrage, along the lines of Kazakhstan's reaction to the country's portrayal in the movie Borat, with accusations of interference in the country's internal affairs.

Valiallah Azarvash, an Iranian MP, said, according to the Guardian: "An Iranian never accepts such slights. Since the second millennium BC, eastern Azerbaijan and Tabriz have never been separated from the body of Iran. How can they now belong somewhere else?" Which would be droll but for the prospect of Iran with nukes, and Google without. Not yet.

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