With reference to the leader comment on the Lockerbie bombing (25 May),
wasn't this about the same time that a US warship mistakenly shot down an
Iranian commercial aircraft in the Persian Gulf? As I recall, hundreds of
pilgrims to Mecca were killed. The US made a formal apology and that was the
end of it.
We are angry about what is done to us, but not at what we do to others.
[The following paragraph is taken from the Wikipedia article Iran Air Flight 655:]
In
1996, the United States and Iran reached "an agreement in full and final
settlement of all disputes, differences, claims, counterclaims" relating
to the incident at the International Court of Justice.* As part of the settlement,
the United States agreed to pay US$61.8 million, an average of $213,103.45 per
passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims. However, the
United States has never admitted responsibility, nor apologized to Iran.**
*Aerial Incident of 3
July 1988 (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) — Settlement
Agreement. International Court of Justice. 9 February
1996.
**The
Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression by Farhang Rajaee University
Press of Florida
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