29 Years Ago the U.S. Navy Blew up 290 Iranians Aboard a Civilian Flight From Iranian Waters

On the rare occasions the U.S. mainstream media refer to the U.S. shootdown of an Iranian airliner in 1988, they sustain the myth it was simply a “mistake“.
Today marks twenty-nine years since the shoot-down by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shoot-down of a civilian airliner by a U.S. naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.
This incident is, of course, something that the people of Iran well remember. Americans who rely on the U.S. mainstream media, on the other hand, would have to be forgiven for never having heard about it.
Furthermore, in the rare instances when the media do mention it, to this day they tend to maintain official U.S. government falsehoods about what occurred and otherwise omit relevant details that would inform Americans about what really happened.

This post was published at Russia Insider