Nearly 31 years ago the US Navy shot down an Iranian airiner.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

All 290 passengers died including 66 children.

While I'm sure it was an accident we never apologized.

Now there are people who want us to go to war because an unmanned drone was shot down?

[marked50]

1. I remember this and was so surprised at the lack of sorrow from the US.

There was some retribution delivered by Iran, as I recall, around the lives and people of the Captain that was in charge of the ship that shot the missile but I can't give more detail.

[Demonaut]

2. his car was bombed, , we were still angry about the hostages, I was surprised how little

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coverage it received, and was a bit ashamed.

edited: I thought he died. glad I was wrong

[marked50]

3. Thank you for the further detail. Sad for all in this- Iranian and American

[NutmegYankee]

4. He's still alive.

His wife was driving the minivan, but thankfully she escaped uninjured.

[cwydro]

6. I didn't know he died? Really?

Now I’ve got to go ride the google machine.

[Demonaut]

8. I thougnt he did, my mistake

[Codeine]

5. Of course we apologized.

Reagan wrote a diplomatic note that he acknowledged was an apology.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/07/06/reagan-apologized-to-iran-for-downing-of-jetliner/9523c6dc-a244-4b3b-90e9-054168d98c79/?utm_term=.0f8d1ba1c980

We also paid $62 million in damages.

[Codeine]

7. We also paid an additional $70 million

which is generally thought to be compensation for the price of the plane.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Somewhat contradicts what I read here

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 in compensation for the Iranians killed. The United States did not admit responsibility or apologize to the Iranian government.

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1988/7/3/iran-air-flight-655-shot-down-by-us-missiles

[Codeine]

10. A formal apology in the UN didn't occur,

but Reagan certainly issued a diplomatic apology and publicly admitted it, which is more than I would have given him credit for at the time. Bush41 was a bellicose ass about it and that probably complicated matters in terms of a UN apology.