If you walked into any high school classroom in the United States and asked the students to describe their country's relationship with Iran, you'd probably hear words like "enemy" and "threat ...

Right around this time, Iran Air Flight 655, was taking off from Bandar Abbas Airport with ... did not find the regularly scheduled flight in the Navy’s book of commercial air traffic and speculated ...

For many Iranians, this is utterly incomprehensible. Photo: Bodies of victims of Iran Air Flight 655 at an Iranian morgue, July 5, 1988.

Hi there. AFSHON OSTOVAR: Hi. Thanks for having me. SHAPIRO: The story of Iran Air Flight 655 is not very well-known in the U.S. Have most Iranians heard of it? OSTOVAR: Oh, of course. It's a big ...

In 1988, the U.S. Navy ship Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian flight, Iran Air 655, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board. The incident has hung over U.S.-Iranian relations for 25 ...

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 ...

US officials claimed that the USS Vincennes had mistaken Iran Air Flight 655 for a warplane. This is while the warship was equipped with highly sophisticated radar systems and electronic battle gear ...

Even more shocking than the number of people who have forgotten about Iran Air Flight 655, is the number of people who’ve never heard about it in the first place. Quite frankly, it is nothing short of ...