Airbus Anniversary Revives Memories of US’ Inherent Terrorism

By: Kayhan Int’l 

     The fateful 3rd of July is here again to remind us of the terrorist nature of the US, which on this day in 1988 unmanly downed an Iranian passenger plane within Iran’s marine borders and then lied to the whole world that the USS Vincennes had to fire missiles ‘in self-defence at a menacingly approaching Iranian fighter plane in the international waters of the Persian Gulf.’

As navy personnel of an aggrieved and oppressed nation pulled out the debris of the Airbus-300 off the coast of Iran’s Hengam Island, along with dismembered bodies of many of the 290 passengers, including 66 children on board Iran Air Flight 655, the civilized world was shocked at the barbarity of the US and its preposterous lies of targeting a military aircraft and that too in international waters.

It took several years for the US to sheepishly admit that the Vincennes had indeed ventured into Iranian waters following orders from the top in Washington to test the viability of its newly-installed Aegis system, and had deliberately blasted in midair the three-times-a-week Bandar Abbas-Dubai flight as it ascended its regular passenger air corridor at 10:17 hours local time.  

The Islamic Republic was then involved in the 8-year war imposed by the US through Saddam of the repressive Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad and the attack was designed to distract the Iranian nation’s attention from the Holy Defence at the frontiers with Iraq, an undeniable act of state terrorism that made the then Iranian President and currently the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, dub Ronald Reagan and his team of rogues "an administration of criminals and murderers”.

And also liars, of course, which means the present incumbent in the White House, Donald Trump, is not the first US president to utter lies in public, but the most notorious of all liars as is evident from his denial of facts, blaming of others for Washington’s unabated crimes against humanity, and constant dodging of truth, whether concerning Iran’s IAEA-confirmed peaceful nuclear project, whether the attacks by CENTCOM terrorists on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last May and June, or whether violation of Iran’s airspace by a highly sophisticated American spy drone that met its deserving fate by being brought down in Iranian waters by Iran’s ever-vigilant defence personnel.

Thirty-One years have passed since the dastardly downing of the Iranian Airbus and no apology has yet been tendered by the US – not that the Islamic Republic expects the ‘Great Satan’ to mend its wicked ways and behave like a normal state.

The truth is that, Iran and the Iranian people continue to be the victims of US terrorism, which over the past forty years has assumed different shapes, such as political, economic, cultural, media, military and etc., but has failed to make a dent in the determination of the Islamic Republic, which has rightly rejected Trump’s theatrical tweets – interspersed with threats – of renegotiating the international nuclear deal JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action) which he blatantly breached last year and has since pursued the policy of economic terrorism.

Washington is again playing with fire in our region by violating Iran’s airspace and sabotaging merchant shipping in a futile bid to pressure the Islamic Republic, oblivious of the fact that there is no escape for the US merchants of death from the flames they have kindled and which will burn them both in this world and in the Eternal Inferno.

Today, as we pay homage to the Airbus Martyrs, whose souls are crying for justice, it is clear that Washington, despite its military misadventures in the region, coupled with the brutalities of the Zionist usurper regime against the sons of the soil, the Palestinians, and the bloodbath unleashed in Yemen by its other terrorist proxy Saudi Arabia, has achieved nothing but disgrace and humiliation, thanks to the inspiration the people of the region draw from the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

There is still one last chance left for Donald the Dotard to contemplate on the crimes of his predecessors, offer apology to Iran and the Iranian people, rejoin JCPOA before it is too late and end his illegal economic sanctions.
Don’t doubt Iran’s resolve and prowess. Another blundering move by him on the pattern of his predecessors and he would be presiding over the ignominious end of the US – history’s most evil power.