Hi there. AFSHON OSTOVAR: Hi. Thanks for having me. SHAPIRO: The story of Iran Air Flight 655 is not very well-known in the U.S. Have most Iranians heard of it? OSTOVAR: Oh, of course. It's a big ...

For many Iranians, this is utterly incomprehensible. Photo: Bodies of victims of Iran Air Flight 655 at an Iranian morgue, July 5, 1988.

Even more shocking than the number of people who have forgotten about Iran Air Flight 655, is the number of people who’ve never heard about it in the first place. Quite frankly, it is nothing short of ...

Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, was blown from the skies by a missile fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Persian Gulf from Iran ...

US officials claimed that the USS Vincennes had mistaken Iran Air Flight 655 for a warplane. This is while the warship was equipped with highly sophisticated radar systems and electronic battle gear ...

He invoked the incident in response to a Trump tweet. Rouhani’s hashtag “#IR655” refers to Iran Air Flight 655, a commercial jet shot down by the U.S. military by mistake on July 3 ...

Concurrent with the 27th anniversary of the shooting down of an Iranian civilian passenger flight – Iran Air Flight 655 – by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser on July 3, 1988 which killed ...

On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 took from Bandar Abbas Airport in Iran. There was nothing extraordinary about the morning trip. It was a routine, twice-weekly flight from Iran to Dubai ...

He is writing a book about martyrs ... In 1988, the crew of the USS Vincennes mistook Iran Air Flight 655 for an attacking fighter jet and shot it down, killing almost 300 passengers.