IFP - Irans foreign ministry has released a statement to mark the 29th anniversary of the downing of an Iranian commercial airliner by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser back in 1988. On July 3, 1988, the commercial airliner Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from the US Navys USS Vincennes. The airplane ...

Press TV - Iran is commemorating the 29th anniversary of the downing of its passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in Persian Gulf waters in 1988. The civilian aircraft, an Airbus A300B2, was flying in Iranian airspace over the Strait of Hormuz from the port city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai, carrying 274 passengers and 16 crewmembers ...

Iranians mark�the 28th anniversary of the downing of its commercial airliner by a United States Navy guided-missile cruiser back in 1988 as the aircraft was flying in Iranian airspace, and over Iran�s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.     By ISNA

Iran is marking the 28th anniversary of the downing of its commercial airliner by a United States Navy guided-missile cruiser back in 1988 as the aircraft was flying in Iranian airspace, and over Irans territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The plane, an Airbus A300B2 of Irans flag carrier, Iran Air, had just taken off from the southern Iranian ...

July 2, The Iran Project -An Iranian Member of Parliament saysUS shooting down of Iran passenger plane (Iran Air flight 655) is an example of the Americas state terrorism, stressing that Washington is a symbol of human rights abuses. Speaking to a reporter on Saturady, Valiollah Nanva Kenari, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy ...