“Today is the anniversary of US downing of a civilian airliner, killing 290 civilians, in am attempt to rescue Saddam Hussain US has now come to rescue another aggressor & wanted war criminal, who is eager to wage "forever wars" to the last American soldier. Wrong side of history,” the former top Iranian diplomat said.
Commemorating the 37th anniversary of the tragic incident, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Farzaneh Sadegh, earlier said in a message on Thursday, stressing that July 3 marks a bitter event that once again fully exposed the true face of the “global hegemonic and imperialist system.”
On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes fired missiles at an Iran Air Airbus A300B2, which was flying over the Strait of Hormuz from the port city of Bandar Abbas to Dubai, carrying 274 passengers and 16 crew members.
Following the attack, the plane disintegrated and crashed into the Persian Gulf waters, killing all 290 on board, among them 66 children.
“Thirty-seven years have passed since the dark day when the USS Vincennes warship fired on Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 innocent men, women, and children. This horrific crime, a blatant example of state terrorism, is merely one link in the long chain of US actions against the Iranian nation, the latest of which was its support for the Zionist child-killing regime’s attack on our country’s national security and peaceful nuclear facilities,” Sadegh emphasized.