Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, was blown from the skies by a missile fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Persian Gulf from Iran ...

Concurrent with the 27th anniversary of the shooting down of an Iranian civilian passenger flight – Iran Air Flight 655 – by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser on July 3, 1988 which killed ...

Instead, the aircraft was Iran Air Flight 655, a Dubai-bound civilian Airbus A300 with 290 people on board—all of whom were killed. "The incident still resonates with Iranians," Reza H.

Photo: The USS Vincennes fires a surface to air missile towards Iran Air flight 655 on 3 July 1988 (Rudy Pahoyo) ...

TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi issued a statement on Saturday, a day ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the U.S. battleship Vincennes, in which ...

In Iran, anti-US sentiment peaks a day earlier. July 3 is when people remember Iran Air flight 655, which was shot down by the US on that day in 1988. The commercial airliner was heading to Dubai ...

To support his accusations, Rouhani cited the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988 by missiles fired from the US naval ship the USS Vincennes. “You have done everything imaginable.