by Jonathan Azaziah
Today, perhaps more so than any other day, vividly personifies why the beautiful, resistant, ever-brilliant Iranian people chant “Death to America!” and why they’ll continue to do so until the Empire is relegated to the dustbin of history. It was 28 years ago, July 3rd, 1988, when the American warship USS Vincennes deliberately and maliciously shot Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai route right out of the sky, slaughtering 290 civilians, including 66 children. William C. Rogers III, the captain of the USS Vincennes and a known “Christian” Zionist warmonger, was given the Legion of Merit for his “service” in the US Navy, i.e. implementing Zio-Imperialist aggression wherever he was ordered to and slaughtering the innocents on Iran Air Flight 655, in a total slap across the faces of the dead. This unspeakable crime against humanity should not be seen in a vacuum as it was part and parcel of the continuous Amreeki bombings of Iran during the entirety of the Iran-Iraq War. The Washington ZOG was not only providing arms (including chemical weapons), intelligence, logistics, advisors and fuel to the tyrannical Saddam Hussein regime, which was also backed to the hilt by the GCC led by Al-Saud as well as the illegitimate ‘Israeli’ entity (read former Mossad Katsa Victor Ostrovsky’s “The Other Side of Deception” for the intimate details on the matter), but numerous direct strikes on the Islamic Republic’s forces and infrastructures, including the particularly cruel US Air Force attacks on Iranian oil platforms in October 1987. Continue reading Why Iranians Chant “Death To America”: Today Marks 28 Years Since The US Downed Iran Air Flight 655 →