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Article: Iran remembers those killed in downing of airliner by US warship 2 decades ago
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- July 2, 2008
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Iranians scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf Wednesday as the nation remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner two decades ago.
Some 300 relatives of victims, artists and officials sailed from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas to the spot where the Iran Air Airbus A300 crashed into the water on July 3, 1988, killing all on board.
The USS Vincennes shot down the airliner shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Washington said the Vincennes mistook the airliner for a hostile Iranian fighter jet. Iran maintains it was a deliberate attack.
In recent years, as tensions with the ...