Alan Eyre, a US State Department spokesman, has called as a tragic misstep the shoot-down on July 3, 1988 of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes. Eyre further said that the US administration has apologized to families of the victims of the deadly incident which left 290 Iranians, including 66 children, killed. The spokesman, who is in Vienna ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian military commander slammed the US government's hostilities toward the Islamic Republic and vowed a "crushing response" to any military threat from Washington. "The Iranian nation has not forgotten the long list of the oppression and crimes (committed by) Americans in (recent) decades," Deputy Chief of Staff of the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A replica of a US aircraft carrier spotted near the coast of Iran is a set being built for a movie which will display the US Navy warships' downing of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988, the Iranian media said. The CNN said last week that Iranians are building a replica of a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Satellite photos ...