Iran remembers when the U.S. killed 300 of its citizens, now Americans should too
military action against Iran and recent unclaimed attacks against nearby oil tankers in the last month have
"The incident still resonates with Iranians," Reza H. Akbari, program manager at the U.K.-based Institute for War & Peace Reporting, told."Once a year, the country's state media rebroadcasts the tragic footage of the plane's wreckage and civilian bodies floating in the Persian Gulf. For a few days, heart-wrenching images of family members crying over the loss of their loved ones and painful facts like the number of children on board are reviewed.
"I will never apologize for the United States—I don't care what the facts are," then-Vice President George H.W. Bush told an August 1988 campaign rally less than a month after the incident, widely consideredAn official report released weeks later by Navy Admiral William Fogarty, determined thatcommanding officer Navy Captain Will Rogers III"acted in a prudent manner," believing he and other U.S. ships present were threatened by the aircraft.
"Such line of thinking partially stems from incidents such as the downing of Iran Air Flight 655. The country's commanders and politicians do not want to ever be in the same position," Akbari said.continued to lead efforts to isolate Tehran, compelling Iranian leaders to seek regional allies. It managed tothe U.S., an operation in which the Pentagon forced out the very same Iraqi leader it supported in the 1980s based on intelligence that later proved false.
Conflict may have been averted, but Ragnar Weilandt, an adjunct professor at the Vesalius College Brussels, toldthat,"For Iranians, the hawkish rhetoric of some pundits and policymakers in Washington must have sounded like a bad joke."
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