update back in december added an unsourced history section and four subsequent edits i can't see that the adolf stieler map should indicate the island being iranian and have removed it i fail to find any sources that confirm what was written and have hatted the section here in case anyone can source it the island had been under persian control until the early th century after the uk controlled the island along with the other british held islands in the persian gulf including what is today the uae in the late s britain transferred administration of the island to the british appointed sharjah one of the seven sheikdoms that would later form the uae best sing