Flight 655
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Commemoration at Flight 655 martyrdom site: Participants demand justice
Qeshm, IRNA – Participants gathered at the site where Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by the US Navy near Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, Iran.
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Iran slams US human rights record on 36th anniv. of downed passenger plane
Tehran, IRNA - The Iranian Foreign Ministry has criticized the United States' long history of human rights violations on the 36th anniversary of the downing of an Iranian passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf, which killed all 290 people on board.
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UK helped US in cover-up after 1988 downing of Iranian flight: Declassified files
Tehran, IRNA – More than three decades on since the shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane by the United States in the Persian Gulf, newly declassified files show that the UK helped the US in covering up facts surrounding the tragic incident.
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30 Iranian war veterans swim 3.5km in memory of Flight 655
Tehran, IRNA – 30 Iranian veterans disabled during Iran-Iraq war swam 3.5 in the Persian Gulf to memorize the downing of Flight 655 in 1988.
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34 years after US downing of Iranian passenger flight
Qeshm, IRNA – July 3 marks the anniversary of a human tragedy for Iranians when they remember the downing of flight 655 in 1988 by two missiles that led to the killing of 298 innocent people.
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Flower-laying ceremony of martyrdom site of Iran flight passengers in Persian Gulf
A number of local officials and the families of the victims lay flowers at the site of downing of an Iran Air Flight 655, shut down by a US warship in the Persian Gulf waters near southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas July 3, 2021. The ceremony occurs on the 33rd anniversary of the incident in 1988. All the 290 on board the plane were martyred.