Iran marks US navy s downing of Iranian airliner in 1988 Saturday, 03 July 2021 11:51 PM
[ Last Update: Saturday, 03 July 2021 11:51 PM ]
Yusef Jalali
Press TV, Qom
This ceremony in the Iranian city of Qom marks the end of a weeklong occasion known as the US Human Rights Week.
The annual event commemorates a series of tragic incidents that killed hundreds of Iranians. The last day of the week, which falls on July 3, marks the 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airliner by the US navy, which killed all of the 290 people on board the doomed plane.
After more than three decades, Iran is still waiting for an apology from the US. The American Human Rights week also commemorates the 1981 bombing of the headquarters of Iran s Islamic Republic party, carried out by the formidable Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization, known as the MKO.
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Believers: Love and Death in Tehran An Excerpt
BY JOHN LIMBERT AND MARC GROSSMAN
Background
Believers: Love and Death in Tehran (Mazda Publishers, 2020), written by Ambassadors (ret.) Marc Grossman and John Limbert, both AFSA members, is a work of fiction set in Iran and Washington, D.C., during the 1980s and the present. The hero is the fictional FSO Nilufar Hartman, daughter of an Iranian mother and an American father. With the liberty of novelists, the authors have imagined her in scenes both historical and fictional with people real and invented. The following adapted excerpt, set in late 1980 and early 1981, ends with the release of 52 American hostages on Jan. 20, 1981, just a few minutes after Ronald Reagan took his presidential oath of office.