They were civilians, there were only 2 or 3 handgun belonged to security guards. No bomb, No missile and no weapon that can harm a warship was with that airplane. But…
21 years ago, 3th of July, they have killed by the U.S. Navy’s guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes. No survivors! It was the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Indian Ocean and the highest death toll of any incident involving an Airbus A300 anywhere in the world.
Vincennes was traversing the Straits of Hormuz, inside Iranian territorial waters, at the time of the attack IR655 was within Iranian airspace.
After completing their tour, the Vincennes crew was awarded Combat Action Ribbons for having actively participated in ground or surface combat, and the captain received the Legion of Merit. (The Combat Action Ribbon was also given to crews from other U.S. naval vessels who served in Persian Gulf Operations from 1987–88.)
In 1996, the United States and Iran reached “an agreement in full and final settlement of all disputes, differences, claims, counterclaims” relating to the incident at the International Court of Justice. As part of the settlement, the United States agreed to pay US$61.8 million in compensation for the Iranians killed. The United States did not admit responsibility or apologize to the Iranian government.
That was formal information about killing 290 people. I copied them form Wikipedia but my feelings are so fresh. I have no problem with US government and want really warm relations but i can not forgive some actions they have done! one them is shut down of IR655 Flight!
Yes, there was a war between Iran and Iraq but i can not understand why US marines were there and why USS Vincennes, fired at civilian airliner fight in our space territory?
Also when they say we are providing Iran protesters, i remember their previous actions: our prime minister, Dr. Mohammad Mosadegh, helping Iraq in 8 years imposed war, killing 290 people in direct fire.
I need a clearance of this actions, I want US government accept its responsibility and apologize us, i need respect and then we can accept their support.
before this, any time US politician says we are supporting Iran protest, I think this is a lie!
comment from ema rachman
at July 17, 2009 4:46 pm
salam, since last year I was concern about these story….since presstv ( alhamdulillah we can watch it from here also) showed it, we know how devil is US government…I used to talk to the wife of Iranian ambassador here, if they could get from presstv about that documentary IR655, so people here should open their eyes as they (some – most of them) believe that america is a nice government…Is it possible to have a copy of the documentary of it? adrikna ya Mahdi..