33 years ago today, Sh-thole nation shoots down airliner with 290 passengers

[abduLMaria]

OOPS !

33 years ago today, Sh-thole nation shoots down airliner with 290 passengers & crew.  July 3, 1988.

Murders 290 Civilians & NEVER APOLOGIZES.

The USA is not Israel.  But they are 2 parts of the same Crime Project, and American Behavior in the Mid-East is mostly dictated by Israel.

ESPECIALLY, American cruelty towards Iran is performed at the direction of Israel supporters in the US gov.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/07/02/how-the-downing-of-iran-air-flight-655-still-influences-us-iran-enmity/

"On September 22, 1980, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in an attempt to win back territory and prevent the exporting of Shi'a revolutions from a post-revolutionary Iran that Saddam perceived as chaotic and weak. Seven years after the Iraqi invasion, with the conflict stalemated more than ever, both countries began attacking oil tankers (neutral or not) that transited the Persian Gulf in an attempt to disrupt their respective adversary's lifeline. To safeguard the transit of oil — a vital American interest at the time — U.S. President Ronald Reagan authorized the American reflagging of Kuwaiti-owned tankers to deter future Iranian attacks and end the war via a negotiated settlement.

American involvement deepened in late September 1987, when U.S. pilots spotted the ship, Iran Ajr, laying mines in the Gulf. Although SEAL teams boarded and destroyed the ship, they could not prevent the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts from hitting one of the Iran Ajr mines seven months later during a convoy escort, injuring the ship and its crew. In retaliation, the U.S. Navy attacked high-profile Iranian targets throughout the Gulf during Operation Praying Mantis. Additionally, Reagan reformed the U.S. military's rules of engagement to authorize force against Iranian warships that were actively attacking or trying to harm neutral shipping.

Nearly a month after Praying Mantis, in May 1988, the three-year-old USS Vincennes, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, was deployed to the Gulf. The $1 billion warship was affectionately termed "Robocruiser" because of its technological sophistication that enabled itto track air and surface threats while seamlessly engaging them.

One day before the 1988 Fourth of July holiday, the Vincennes deployed a helicopter to investigate reports of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboats harassing neutral merchant ships. When commanding officer Capt. Will Chapel Rogers received word that one of the Iranian boats had fired ten rounds at the probing helicopter, he swung his ship around and steamed toward the speedboats. In doing so, he violated Reagan's rules of engagement by crossing into Iranian waters."

[yankeedoodle]

At the time of the shoot-down of the Iranian airliner, I thought it was curious that, shortly thereafter, the Iran-Iraq war ended.  I thought that it might have been a message to Iran that the US would intercede, if the fighting didn't stop. 

Five years ago, I asked Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson about this on a radio call-in show, and he wouldn't confirm this, but I remember him commenting that, yes indeed, the war ended shortly thereafter.

Unfortunately, I didn't write down exactly what he said, and it looks like the internet has wiped away this information.

Here is an old link about this:  http://theinfounderground.com/smf/index.php?topic=24167.msg88493#msg88493

[abduLMaria]

At the time of the shoot-down of the Iranian airliner, I thought it was curious that, shortly thereafter, the Iran-Iraq war ended.  I thought that it might have been a message to Iran that the US would intercede, if the fighting didn't stop. 

The US was so obviously involved in a Land-Clearing operation conducted on behalf of Israel.

One company that helped Iraq with their chemical weapons was Finnigan, right there in Sunnyvale.

I interviewed with Finnigan in the early 80's.

That the US had a long history of using proxies was obvious to Iran before Iraq picked a fight with them, and could only have become more obvious as Iraq kept using new & terrible weapons, given to it by the US.