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Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US (AP)

An Iranian girl scatters flower into the Persian Gulf, Saturday, July 3, 2010, during a ceremony remembering the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago. About 250 relatives of victims and officials sailed from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday to the spot where the airliner was downed. The USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air A300 Airbus on July 3, 1988 shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.(AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Abdolhossein Rezvani)AP - Iranian helicopters scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf waters on Saturday as family members and relatives remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago.


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