Twenty two years ago today, on July 3, 1988, everyone agrees that a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes, shot down a civilian airliner, Iran Air 655, killing all 290 people aboard. This editorial from Iran’s state-controlled Kayhan castigates the ‘Great Satan’s bloodthirsty’ act, and urges President Obama to finally apologize for what no one denies was a tragedy.
The editorial from Kayhan says in part:
Today, July 3, is the fateful day on which 22 years ago, Iran Air 655, a three-day-a-week flight from Bandar Abbas to Dubai, was suddenly deflected from its destination. Although two heat-seeking missiles fired by the USS Vincennes shattered the Airbus A300 on contact, causing it to crash into the waters off the Persian Gulf, the 297 men, women, children and babies on board gently alighted to the gates of Paradise.
As usual, the Americans, who have no inhibitions about shedding innocent blood, lie frequently and alter their accounts. They initially claimed to have targeted what they called “an aggressive Iranian jet fighter coming in at the USS Vincennes.” Then they said it was a case of mistaken identity by radar equipment that is supposed to detect even the minutest detail of a flying object. By whatever Washington has said over the past 22 years, it has yet to offer an official apology to the Iranian nation and government for its unpardonable crime. Even after its sheepish admission that its sophisticated ship had entered Iran’s territorial waters and in advance, positioning itself under a corridor used by commercial aircraft with the intent of shooting one down.
Not that the Islamic Republic expects the Great Satan to drop its hostility toward the Iranian people, who have been targets of U.S. state terrorism since the coup to reinstall the fugitive Pahlavi potentate 57 years ago in 1953.
It’s obvious that Right eventually triumphs over Brutal and Deceitful Might. On the eve of July 4, a day that an illegally-expanded U.S. celebrates a Declaration of Independence issued by 13 New England colonies, the Free World knows very well that July 3 is a day of eternal shame for the U.S. regime.
Before it’s too late, there is a chance for Barack Obama to acknowledge the crimes of his predecessors and offer an apology to the Iranian people. More blunders like those that came before and he’ll be presiding over the ignominious end of the United States – history’s most evil power.
The souls of the passengers of Flight 655 are watching the unfolding drama on planet Earth from the Divine Court of Justice.
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