Iran Air Flight 655

danmanjones's picture

Tehran condemns 1988 shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane by US Navy

On July 3, 1988, U-S warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children.

No formal apology has ever been issued.

 

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Woodsman's picture

I've never heard of this.  Knowing the media, not weird at all.

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Lambus's picture

Collateral damage as a result of Iran murdering 37 innocent American sailors with their rogue despotic regime war crimes.

 

Tehran and their rogue despotic regimes are the ones that should be apologising for this tragedy against humanity and the world.

 

In 1984, the war between Iraq and Iran had expanded to include air attacks against oil tankers and merchant shipping of neighboring countries, some of whom were providing aid to Iraq by shipping Iraqi oil. The Flight 655 incident occurred a year after the Iraqi Air Force attack on the U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate USS Stark on 17 May 1987, which killed 37 American sailors. U.S. naval forces had also exchanged gunfire with Iranian gunboats in late 1987, and the U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts had struck an Iranian sea mine in April 1988.

 

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danmanjones's picture

Are you trying to justify an attack against a civilian airliner that killed 260 people?

 

...with the fact that a US war ship hit a mine a year earlier (killing nobody), to which the US had already responded with a heavy attack on Iranian forces

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis

 

Are you going for the Retard of the Year award or...?

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monkeymania's picture

Ridiculous. I am the Retard of the Year. I thought Donald Trump was a criminal, a pathological liar, a con man, a scam artist, and he actually always tells the truth and is the greatest president in U.S. history.

 

Let's win this righteous war!

 

 

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