From Mohammed Mossadegh to Flight 655, and pulling out of the JCPOA the US has an unbroken record treachery in it’s treatment of the Persians. It is still (joined by the satanic Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem) at work undermining Iranian democracy by plotting to overthrow the government and install the evil death cult known as the MEK.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-03/us-and-israel-form-working-group-overthrow-iran-government
U.S. 1988 Iran flight downing haunts relations
Arshad, whose father was killed on Iran Air flight 655, scatters flowers into the sea during a memorial ceremony.
DUBAI: Mourners tossed flowers from a helicopter and a ferry into the Arabian Gulf off the coast of Iran 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 the Iranian government points to in its decadeslong distrust of America. They rank it alongside the 1953 CIA-backed coup that toppled its elected prime minister and secured Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s absolute power until he abdicated the throne before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Today, as Iran grapples with America pulling out of the nuclear deal with world powers, officials linked their current woes to the 1988 disaster, insisting again that the U.S. cannot be trusted.
“This heinous crime is recorded in the memory of the great and brave people of this land and will never be forgotten,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said in a statement.
The attack on the flight followed what the U.S. Navy refers to as Operation Praying Mantis, a daylong naval battle in the Arabian Gulf between American forces and Iran during the country’s long 1980s war with Iraq. That battle came after the USS Samuel B. Robertson struck a mine that the Americans later accused Iran of laying in the shipping channels it was trying to keep open for Kuwaiti oil tankers.
After the battle, U.S. forces continued to patrol shipping channels while Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard often harassed or swarmed incoming ships with smaller vessels. That’s a tactic used even today in the narrows of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a third of the world’s oil traded by sea passes.
Just after dawn on July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes sent a helicopter to hover over Iranian speedboats the Navy described as harassing commercial ships. The Iranians allegedly fired on the helicopter and the Vincennes gave chase, the Navy said. Unacknowledged for years afterward by the Navy though, the Vincennes had crossed into Iranian territorial waters in pursuit. It began firing at the Iranian ships there.
As the fighting raged, Iran Air flight 655 took off from Bandar Abbas, Iran, heading for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Airbus A300 began its ascent as normal, part of a twice-weekly route flown by the airline for over 20 years. The captain communicated with air traffic controllers in English, His last message was: “Thank you, good day.”
The Vincennes meanwhile had mistaken the commercial aircraft for an Iranian F-14, despite having state-of-the-art combat equipment at the time. The U.S. says the Navy made 11 radio warning calls on different frequencies before the Vincennes fired two missiles at the airplane, bringing it down and killing all aboard. The aircraft’s black box flight recorders were never recovered.
The deaths shocked Iran, even amid the carnage of the war with Iraq, which would kill 1 million people. Sixty-six of the dead were infants and children. Authorities lined up wooden caskets of some of the dead in front of Parliament in Tehran. Iran ultimately would sue the U.S., reaching a $131.8 million settlement.
The U.S. later would give USS Vincennes Capt. William C. Rogers the country’s Legion of Merit award, further angering Iran.
“It is now 30 years since the cowardly Captain Will Rogers, on orders from the rascal in Washington, Ronald Reagan, fired two missiles,” an editorial from the hard-line Kayhan International newspaper said Tuesday. “No amount of apologies – although Washington has offered none nor Tehran expects any – will ever wipe out the bitter memories of this dastardly deed.”
The newspaper also described the attack as “nothing new,” noting the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal by “the current crook in the White House, Donald Trump.”
Linking Trump to the 1988 calamity might not be necessary. The typical Iranian already has enmity for the U.S. president, who included Iran in his travel bans. They also worry about Iran’s economy in the wake of the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal, which saw Tehran limit uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions being lifted. Airplane manufacturers, carmakers and oil companies all have pulled away from promised billion-dollar deals.
Iran’s government has contended with a series of recent protests across the nation. The Iranian rial has plunged to 90,000 to the dollar – double the government rate of 42,000. Meanwhile, demonstrators in the south clashed with security forces this week over a yearslong drought and water scarcity. Iranian authorities may hope to deflect internal criticism by portraying America as a past and present menace.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has used his Twitter account to increasingly mock the U.S. since its nuclear deal pullout. He noted Tuesday how America now had cancelled civilian jet sales granted by the deal and that the USS Vincennes’ captain got a “medal instead of punishment” for the incident. “Clear target: civilians,” Zarif wrote.
Why did the us navy do this?
The Iranians had the audacity to defend their coastline during a time when they were repelling an invader.
MIGA. Even if it kills us.
Who cares?
giblets
Anyone who has the capacity to give a shit who controls the government you pay for with 30% of your labor each year.
If they hadn’t spent the last 40 years supporting international terrorism and trying to provoke us, it might seem different. Don’t care.
You are a true American.
If you’re so upset, you could go back and tell them how awful we all are.
Gilnuts ..
Do you also post under the name Jason??
At least on July 3, 1988 the US Navy didn’t shoot down an American airliner.
They waited eight years to manage that. On July 17, 1996, they shot down TWA flight 800.
Jack Cashill has a done an excellent job of putting together the actual story and surprise surprise, it turns out to be the work of the usual subject – The military, the Clintons, the FBI,CIA, FAA, and half a dozen other alphabet agencies. The Clintons were in it up to their necks…
It’s a truly disgusting story of crimes committed by our government at many levels all to preserve their own power and move up the ranks. As usual, the innocent were persecuted and prosecuted and the guilty got off Scott free.
Meet the new cover-up. Same as the old cover-up…
Here’s one of several articles Cashill has posted on his website about it:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/twa_800_the_great_untold_story_of_our_time.html
His two books on the subject are very good:
“First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America” – January 1, 2003
“TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy Hardcover” – July 5, 2016
He also released a video on the topic a year or so ago that what passes for a news media in this country did its normal job of burying.
Nelson DeMille wrote an excellent novel about that called Night Fall.
no time to read the links–
was the downing intentional or did we screw up but then it was covered up?
According to Cashill, the Navy screwed up big time and the Clinton’s panicked. Slick Willie was up for re-election and they had just killed about 400 people.
The ruthlessness of what they did to good people to cover it up was something right out of a horror movie.
The link is just to one of Cashill’s articles on it. He has more listed on his sight for when you have the time. His books are good to, and I think his DVD is still available.
thanks steve–
pretty sure i read an article by this guy,it might have been on this sight–
I wonder if it’s possible to create years long drought and water scarcity by spraying chemtrails?
1988? Wasn’t that about the time when Iran was sending 100,000 children out to clear mines when it was fighting Iraq?
Gee, bet that is a story Z nevers tells about Iran. Only 30 years ago, Iran sent its children to certain death against minefields and machine guns. But hey, Iran is the greatest! And the leaders that did that are largely still in power.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/01/18/children-khomeinis-cannon-fodder/8b7673b3-c701-484c-955c-0bd4c3ea1d70/?noredirect=on
Fuck Iran. And the entire Middle East.
Washington Post is highly acclaimed as a credible neutral and nearly infallible paper. If they said it it’s true. Wonder what it said about how those mines got there and who backed and funded Saddam start that war.
Flea – there are many articles out there. Pick one of your choosing. In 1988, WAPO was a different animal than today. The fact remains, Iran sacrificed its children to mines and machine guns. You try to pin the blame for that atrocity on the supplier of the mines and guns. Amazing.
By the way, the answer to that question re who supplied the mines is USSR. Oops. Your ignorance is showing. Re the money, that largely came from the Saudis, Kuwait, and the UAE. Oops number two.
You should do a bit of research before you post. It would save you some embarrassment.
That’s a beat down there.