The clamor to blame Iran and ‘Russian missiles’ for this week’s UIA PS752 plane crash in Iran has been a reminder of how geopolitics plays its part in determining which disasters get the coverage, and which don’t.
A missile taking down a passenger airliner, which had departed from Tehran airport, with heavy loss of life. No I’m not talking about this week’s Ukrainian International Airlines PS752 crash, but the take-down by a surface-to-air missile of Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988. Never heard of that one? Well, it’s not surprising, as it was the US which shot the aircraft down. 290 people lost their lives and guess what? The US did not formally apologize.
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