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Sorry, what history?

• jacquesm 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
  • reaperducer 7y ago
    As unfortunate as it was, one incident ≠ "a history."
    • FireBeyond 7y ago
      And this is also "one incident".
    • boomboomsubban 7y ago
      How is it not? "They only blew up one plane and tried to blame Iran, obviously they would never do it again."
    • IfOnlyYouKnew 7y ago
      A precedent, then.
  • eloff 7y ago
    Ok, I'm aware of the incident, but that article doesn't support "and blamed it on Iran", so you have a source for that?
    • boomboomsubban 7y ago
      To this day, the official US story is that they were acting in self defense in international waters.
      • eloff 7y ago
        That's a stretch for them to claim that. More like being the aggressors in Iranian waters. Still afaik they did own up to shooting down the airliner, and did not try to blame Iran for doing that. Happy to be proven wrong.
        • boomboomsubban 7y ago
          The Wikipedia article you read says the US maintains that is what happened. The settlement they paid was specifically worded so that they could maintain that position. Claiming self defense is them claiming Iran was attacking them, or at least "someone" that was implied to be Iran, making Iran the one to blame.
        • boomboomsubban 7y ago
          Sorry to double post, but I was thinking about this. I think you assumed I meant the US blamed Iran for firing the missile that brought down the airliner, when I was saying the US said that Iran intentionally caused the accident. An understandable confusion given the connection to current events. Even after Iran confirmed their missile was the one responsible for this crash, it was prudent to deny it until they ruled out a foreign infiltration. Stuxnet showed how far the US will go to infiltrate Iran.
          • eloff 7y ago
            Ah, ok thanks for clearing that up. That is exactly what I was thinking.