Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US violence against Iran continues in the form of economic terrorism.
He made the remarks in a twitter message in reference to the killing of innocent Iranian aboard Flight 655, thirty three years ago.
Zarif said that "33 years ago today, US shot down #IranAir655, killing all 290 civilians ...
Iran on Sat. commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the downing of the 290 passengers of Iran Air flight 655 by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser over the Persian Gulf.
A memorial ceremony was held today on the tragedys anniversary, with the participants, including the families of the victims and local officials, tossing flowers into the waters of ...
Iranian Diplomacy | Afsaneh Rashad: July 3 commemorates the USS Vincennes cruiser terrorist attack on Iranian passenger plane which killed 270 innocent people. The terrorist operation ran counter against all the legal conventions, the explicit principles of the UN charter and The Hague charter.
The Iranian passenger plane crash is perhaps the gravest ...
Tasnim Iran on Thursday commemorated the 32nd anniversary of the downing of its passenger aircraft by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser over the Persian Gulf, which killed 290 people.
A memorial ceremony was held today on the eve of the tragedys anniversary, with the participants, including the families of the victims and local officials, tossing ...
RT | Finian Cunningham: Commendably, Iran has apologized for shooting down the passenger jet and killing all 176 people on board. It shows integrity to take responsibility for the disastrous loss of life at a time of intense adversity.
Now will other parties also show similar humility in admitting their role for creating precarious conditions where ...
IRNA President Hassan Rouhani on Monday stressed that never threaten the great Iranian nation.
The Iranian president tweeted late on Monday that those referring to the number 52 are better to think about the number 290 as well. Never threaten the great Iranian nation.
President Rouhani by number 290 was referring to Iran Air flight 655, flight ...
Lobe Log | Paul Gottinger: This month marks 31 years since the U.S. Navy ship, the USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air flight 655, killing 290 Iranian civilians, including 66 children. The downing of the airliner on July 3, 1988 remains one of the deadliest flight disasters of all time.
Although Americans have largely forgotten the tragedy, Iran commemorates ...
IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to the US shooting down of Iranian passenger plane 31 years ago, saying the US aggression against Iran did not begin with Trump.
"31 years ago today, the US warship shot down #IR655a passenger jetover Iran's territorial waters, killing 290 innocents incl 66 children. US aggression ...
ISNA | Shima Masjedi: Commemoration ceremony of the victims of the US attack on an Iranian passenger plane was held at Iran Air office in Tehran on Tuesday. The plane, Airbus A300, flying over the Persian Gulf, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile from USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. The attack claimed the lives of 290 civilians, including 66 children,...
IRNA Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani denounced the US' paradoxical policies, which he said have deteriorated in incumbent US presidents term, and said, "The US confused behavior towards Irans nuclear program shows Washingtons lack of understanding about Iran and the Middle East region as well as Iran's civilization.
Speaking at the 31st ...
MNA Iran is commemorating the 31st anniversary of the downing of an Iranian Airbus A300B2 passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters in 1988.
The commemoration ceremony marking the downing of an Iranian Airbus A300B2 passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser took place on Tuesday ahead of the incident's ...
The Daily Beast | Christopher Dickey: The image of a little girl in a crude fiberboard coffin has haunted me for more than 30 years. She was one of the many bodies pulled out of the waters of the Persian Gulf after an American warship shot an Iranian civilian airliner out of the sky one morning in the summer of 1988. Everyone on board the regularly ...
Tasnim - Iran Air Flight 655 was a civilian jet airliner shotdown by US missiles on 3 July 1988 as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran. 290 innocent civilians (252 Iranians and 38 non Iranians) died when the US Navy shot down it.
Speaking to a group of Republican ethnic leaders (7 Aug 1988), George H W Bush,...
Tasnim- Iran commemorated the anniversary of the downing of the country's passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters in July 3, 1988.
IRNA Chairman of Irans Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati criticized on Tuesday the stance adopted by the so-called claimants of human rights and their silence towards terrorist assassinations in Iran.
Why these parties who claim to be the main supporters of human rights, remain to turn a blind eye on the countless terrorist assassinations ...
khamenei.ir- As some friends say, it would be good if we named the period from the 7th to 12th of Tir [28th of June to 3th of July] "The Week of American Human Rights". In this period, the true nature of American human rights was revealed in our country.
Everyone should know that today, the country needs to know the enemy. We should know the enemy....
Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad JavadZarifhas stressed that Iran will never forget the USs downing of the Iran Air Flight 655.
Zarif made the remark on his official twitter account on Monday, which marks the 29th anniversary of the downing of an Iranian Airbus A300B2 passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian ...
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 ...
It was not yet 10:20 local time on July 3, 1988, when Captain Mohsen Rezaeiyan, the pilot of the Iran Air Flight 655 took off from Bandar Abbas airport in south Iran to head for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Out of 290 passengers on the plane, 44 were non-Iranian and 66 were children.
Five minutes after the Iranian passenger plane took off ...
A senior naval commander dismissed claims that the US Navy had shot down an Iranian civilian plane in July 1988 as a result of a mistaken identity or system malfunctioning.
"The radars of missile-launching destroyers are equipped with the Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) system which shows the type of flying planes, clearly differentiating warplanes ...
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