Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US

[ToughGong]

BANDAR ABBAS, Iran – Iranian helicopters scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf waters on Saturday as family members and relatives remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago.

About 250 relatives of victims and officials sailed from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas to the spot where the Iran Air A300 Airbus was downed on July 3, 1988 — just a month before the end of the Iraq-Iran war.

The USS Vincennes shot down the airliner shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Washington said the Vincennes mistook the airliner for a hostile Iranian fighter jet. Iran maintains it was a deliberate attack.

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[S-D-M]

It is only crime when you kill and American and Israeli.

And by me just saying that I will be labeled as an American or Jewish hater, even though I only mentioned the country (Israel) not a religion.

[Babygirl-]

It is only crime when you kill and American and Israeli.

And by me just saying that I will be labeled as an American or Jewish hater, even though I only mentioned the country (Israel) not a religion.

So true.

[Gatspy]

A helicopter scattered flowers into the sea? of course. I mean why not, Its better than flogging your own back with blades.

[kambuli]

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