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.  

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 ...

Tasnim- Iran commemorated the anniversary of the downing of the country's passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters in July 3, 1988.    

IFP- A political commentator has weighed in on the US double standards in reaction to two similar tragic incidents: the USSRs shoot-down of a Korean airliner, and the US downing of an Iranian passenger plane. The downing of the Dubai-bound Iran Air flight 655 by the American warship USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988 over the Persian Gulf ...

On July 3, 1988, an Airbus A300-B2 plane belonging to Irans flag carrier Iran Air had just taken off from the southern Iranian coastal city of Bandar Abbas at 10:17 a.m. local time with 274 passengers and 16 crew members on board. It was climbing inside an internationally recognized route to Dubai when the US cruiser, the USS Vincennes, fired two ...

On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was shot down by USS Vincennes which led to the loss of life of 290 innocent civilian from six nations including 66 children. There were 38 non-Iranians aboard. Flight 655, as a commercial flight, operated by Iran Air that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route. While flying in Iranian airspace over ...

On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 was on a routine flight from Irans southern city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai when the US Navys missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot it down, killing all 290 passengers onboard, including 66 children and crew members.   By ...

Irans Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development reported on Wednesday August 20 that the average age of the Iranian air fleet exceeds 20 years, and in the past 100 years to date, two thousand Iranian have died in air accidents. ISNA reports that Ahmad Majidi was speaking at the Air Disaster Management meeting in Kermanshah when he referred to ...

If you walked into any high school classroom in the United States and asked the students to describe their country's relationship with Iran, you'd probably hear words like "enemy" and "threat," maybe "distrust" and "nuclear." But ask them what the number 655 has to do with it, and you'd be met with silence. Try the same thing in an Iranian classroom,...