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.

Rouhani’s hashtag “#IR655” refers to Iran Air Flight 655, a commercial jet shot down ... The Washington Post at the time, the plane’s wreckage fell into Iranian waters.

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 ...

The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, killing all 290 passengers and crew members, including 66 children. The U.S.

This week, he's joined by Rob Hugh-Jones from London to discuss the anniversary of the downing of an Iranian passenger jet by a U.S. warship in the 1980s and Iran breaching the limits on its ...

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 ...