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Originally Posted by peter12

You mean have POTUS fully acknowledge the mistake, call for a full investigation, and reaffirm their commitment to peace. You meant that right?

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/04/w...statement.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-054168d98c79/

Let's not let moral relativism totally get the better of us here.

To borrow your latter source:

On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by the U.S. military. The flight, a passenger jet that had originated in Tehran and had already stopped in Bandar Abbas, Iran, was flying over the Strait of Hormuz toward its destination, Dubai, when it was hit by two surface-to-air missiles.



Though Pentagon officials at first denied any knowledge of the incident, it soon emerged that the plane had been targeted by the USS Vincennes, a cruiser that had been involved in a skirmish with Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf and had mistaken the passenger jet for an Iranian warplane.



President Ronald Reagan expressed sympathy for the “terrible human tragedy” but suggested that the plane had “failed to heed repeated warnings.” However, an investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency, found that U.S. military ships in the region did not have the equipment necessary to monitor civilian air-traffic-control frequencies.



Iran reached a settlement with the United States in 1996 after it sued in the International Court of Justice. The U.S. government refused to accept liability but agreed to pay $61.8 million to the families of victims.

As indicated, I hope that Iran will step up and ultimately do the right thing here, even if it takes a couple of days.