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Iran Air flight 655
Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air civilian passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai. On 3 July 1988, the aircraft operating this route was shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes. The incident took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, and on the flight's usual flight path. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 B2-203, was destroyed by SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired from Vincennes. All 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew, died. The cruiser Vincennes had entered Iranian territorial waters after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits.
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Middle East Eye
February 16, 2018
Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and one of the most radical figures in Iran's establishment, rejected Israel's claims. Salami ... On 3 July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 took off from Bandar Abbas International Airport in southern Iran, bound for Dubai.
CNBC
October 9, 2017
Iran promised on Monday to give a "crushing" response if the United States designated its elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group. ... Iranian Revolutionary Guards drive speedboats during a ceremony to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the US navy, at theÃâà...
News24
October 4, 2017
Whereas the US and much of the world have effectively forgotten about Iran Air Flight 655, the Iranian leadership and its people most certainly have not. This tragic event is remembered across Iran like the US remembers 9/11, and the UK remembers 7/7. Keeping Iran's 7/3 in mind, Trump's statements atÃâà...
New York Times
August 27, 2017
It starts with a computer-generated scene of a plane taking off — Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian airliner that was shot down by an American naval vessel in 1988, killing all 290 people on board. The film then cuts to a sunny beach where a young man, a famous religious singer, plants the Iranian flag on aÃâà...
Mintpress News (blog)
August 1, 2017
On 3 July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655, flying from Tehran to Dubai, was shot down by the USS Vincennes, a huge United States missile cruiser. All 290 people aboard the Iranian airliner were killed, including 66 children, and 38 people of non-Iranian nationality. The Vincennes was rewarded shortly after forÃâà...
IFP News
July 5, 2017
Iranian second flotilla admiral, Nasser Sarnevesht, who was the commander of the operations to recover the pieces of the bodies of the victims of the shoot-down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988, believes that the attack had been aimed at annihilating the jet as well as all itsÃâà...
Foreign Policy Journal (blog)
July 5, 2017
On the rare occasions the US mainstream media refer to the US shootdown of an Iranian airliner in 1988, they sustain the myth it was simply a "mistake". Today marks twenty-nine years since the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane's 290 civilian passengers.
IFP News
July 2, 2017
On July 3, 1988, the commercial airliner Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from the US Navy's USS Vincennes. The airplane was destroyed between Bandar Abbas and Dubai; all 290 passengers and crew died. In a statement released early on Monday, the Iranian foreignÃâà...
Slate Magazine
July 23, 2014
Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci answers questions from the press regarding the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 at the Pentagon on Aug. ... the Malaysian plane killed 298 passengers, including 80 children; the American SM-2 surface-to-air missile that downed the Iranian plane killed 290 passengers,Ãâà...
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