Iran slams intl. silence on 1988 US attack on passenger plane<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
In a Tuesday statement, the ministry said the historical memory of the Iranian nation will never forget this inhumane act.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cThose who claim to defend human rights must be held accountable for this mischievous act and violation of the most obvious human values,\u201d the Foreign Ministry said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Iran Air Flight 655 was on a routine flight from Iran’s southwestern city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai when it was shot down by the United States Navy’s missile cruiser USS Vincennes<\/i> on July 3, 1988, killing all 290 passengers onboard, including 66 children, and crewmembers.<\/p>\n
US officials at the time claimed their naval officers had mistaken the Airbus A300 for an Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighter jet.\n<\/p>\n
They also claimed that the USS Vincennes<\/i> crew had been under a simultaneous psychological condition called ‘scenario fulfillment’, and had therefore confused their training scenario with reality and responded accordingly.\n<\/p>\n
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