Iran Remembers Victims of Flight 655

Iranians commemorated the 22nd anniversary of shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane by a US warship in the Persian Gulf in 1988 in an official ceremony held at the site of the incident on Saturday.
Iranians including families of those killed in the tragic incident gathered at the site of the incident to remember the victims by throwing flowers into the Persian Gulf waters.
At the height of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran, the USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf blew up Iranian airliner 655, killing all 290 citizens on board, including nearly 70 children.
Iranian Airbus A300 plane was making a routine flight from the country's southern port city of Bandar Abbas, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes launched two surface-to-air missiles, downing Iran Air Flight 655.
The American officials had later claimed that the USS Vincennes had mistaken the Iranian passenger plane for an F-14 fighter. The claim was later proved to be unfounded by more evidence.
Although Iran filed against the US in the United Nations and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), both bodies adopted a politicized attitude and declined to follow up the case legally, they only bothered to sympathize with the bereaved families of the victims.
Iranians mark July the 3rd each year by showering the site of the disaster with flowers.