ISNA | Shima Masjedi: Commemoration ceremony of the victims of the US attack on an Iranian passenger plane was held at Iran Air office in Tehran on Tuesday. The plane, Airbus A300, flying over the Persian Gulf, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile from USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. The attack claimed the lives of 290 civilians, including 66 children,...

AP | Jon Gambrell: Mourners tossed flowers from a helicopter and a ferry into the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Navy shooting down an Iranian commercial airline, which killed 290 people. The July 3, 1988, downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the U.S. Navy remains one of the moments ...

ISNA | Mostafa Chashmberah: Iran is marking the 30th anniversary of the downing of its civilian aircraft by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser over the Persian Gulf.  

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Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the countrys people will never forget the downing of an Iranian passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters in a barbaric operation in 1988. Years after this horrific tragedy and barbaric operation, the pain and suffering caused by the crime have not been ...

Press TV- Iran is marking the 30th anniversary of the downing of its civilian aircraft by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser over the Persian Gulf. On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes fired missiles at an Airbus A300B2 of Irans flag carrier, Iran Air, which was flying over the Strait of Hormuz from the port city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai, carrying ...

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Iran Foreign Ministry has denounced the silence of the so-called advocates of human rights toward the 1988 US missile attack on an Iranian passenger plane. In a Tuesday statement, the ministry said the historical memory of the Iranian nation will never forget this inhumane act. Those who claim to defend human rights must be held accountable for this ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranians marked on Monday the anniversary of the downing of an airliner by a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf more than two decades ago. State TV showed officials joining relatives of the 290 dead in scattering flowers from a ship and a helicopter into the waters where the Iran Air Airbus A300 crashed on July 3, 1988, killing all ...