http://www.iranlinked.com/en/taxonomy/term/4759/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.iranlinked.com/en/news/iran_remembers_victims_airliner_shot_down_us <!--paging_filter--><p><img width="120" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="133" align="left" alt="Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US - www.iranlinked.com" src="/files/image/IranAirliner.jpg" /><strong>Iranians scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf and released white pigeons into the air Wednesday as the nation remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner two decades ago.</strong></p> <p>Some 300 relatives of victims as well as artists and officials sailed from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas to the spot where the Iran Air Airbus A300 crashed into the water on July 3, 1988, killing all on board.</p> <p><a href="http://www.iranlinked.com/en/news/iran_remembers_victims_airliner_shot_down_us">read more</a></p> http://www.iranlinked.com/en/news/iran_remembers_victims_airliner_shot_down_us#comments Iran iran airliner shot down Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:19:25 -0700 david 2760 at http://www.iranlinked.com