Newly declassified filesreveal that the British government offered immediate support to the US and assisted in the cover-up of the downing of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988that killed all the 290 people on board. On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes fired two missiles at the Iran Air Flight 655, which was flying over the Hormuz Strait from the ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Afsaneh Rashad: July 3 commemorates the USS Vincennes cruiser terrorist attack on Iranian passenger plane which killed 270 innocent people. The terrorist operation ran counter against all the legal conventions, the explicit principles of the UN charter and The Hague charter. The Iranian passenger plane crash is perhaps the gravest ...

Tasnim Iran on Thursday commemorated the 32nd anniversary of the downing of its passenger aircraft by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser over the Persian Gulf, which killed 290 people. A memorial ceremony was held today on the eve of the tragedys anniversary, with the participants, including the families of the victims and local officials, tossing ...

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,...

The Daily Beast | Christopher Dickey: The image of a little girl in a crude fiberboard coffin has haunted me for more than 30 years. She was one of the many bodies pulled out of the waters of the Persian Gulf after an American warship shot an Iranian civilian airliner out of the sky one morning in the summer of 1988. Everyone on board the regularly ...

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.  

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 ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif referred to the US crime to shoot down Iranian passenger plane, and said that the US has always targeted civilians. July 3, 1988: the US shoots down Iranian passenger jetliner, killing all 290 on board. Perpetrator gets medal instead of punishment 2016: Following the JCPOA, licenses issued for ...

Press TV - Iran is commemorating the 29th anniversary of the downing of its passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in Persian Gulf waters in 1988. The civilian aircraft, an Airbus A300B2, was flying in Iranian airspace over the Strait of Hormuz from the port city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai, carrying 274 passengers and 16 crewmembers ...

In 1988today, 290 people were killedin a US missile cruisers attack on an Iranian passenger plane. Carrying 274 passengers and 16 crew members, the Airbus A-300 (IR655) had just taken off from the southern Iranian coastal city of Bandar Abbas and was climbing inside an internationally recognized route to Dubai when it was targeted by two Standard ...

Tehran, June 30, IRNA - Iranians will not forget cold-blood shot down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988, head of Iran?s Red Crescent Society Pir Hossein Kolivand said on Monday. Talking to IRNA, he noted that the American navy?s cold-blood shooting of Iranian passenger plane was a ...