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The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
On the rare occasions the US mainstream media refer to the US shootdown of an Iranian airliner in 1988, they sustain the myth it was simply a "mistake".
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It's not a mystery. In July 3, 1988, the Iran/Iraq War is at its height. The U.S. enters the war, killing Iran Air Flight 655. The war is over within a month. The rest of this melodramatic handwringing is willful ignorance. It's no murkier than the fate of the USS Stark the day the Tower Commission Report on the Iran/Contra scandal was supposed to be published. Or that of the USS Liberty for that matter.
Exposing the truth about U.S. crimes against humanity just does not fit corporate media's agenda.