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 ...

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 ...

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. In acclaimed poet Kaveh Akbar’s first novel ...