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The 'Forgotten' US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
Hammond, Jeremy R. http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/07/03/the-forgotten-us-shootdown-of-iranian-airliner-flight-655
Publisher: Foreign Policy Journal
Date Written: 03/07/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
The shooting down of Iran Air flight 655 by the US Navy, which killed 290 civilian passengers, is well remembered in Iran twenty-nine years after the incident, yet many Americans reliant on US media may not have even heard about it.
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Excerpt: The lack of mention of the incident or, when it is mentioned, the deceptive reporting about what occurred illustrates an institutionalized bias in the media. The consequence is that Americans seeking to understand US-Iran relations today fail to grasp a key historical event that has helped to define that relationship.
In truth, the Vincennes was in Iran's territorial waters, the plane was ascending through 12,000 feet at 380 knots within the established commercial air route, and its transponder was squawking the plane's identify over a civilian channel.
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