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 ...

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 ...

He invoked the incident in response to a Trump tweet. Rouhani’s hashtag “#IR655” refers to Iran Air Flight 655, a commercial jet shot down by the U.S. military by mistake on July 3 ...

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 ...

This week, he's joined by Rob Hugh-Jones from London to discuss the anniversary of the downing of an Iranian passenger jet by a U.S. warship in the 1980s and Iran breaching the limits on its ...