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Originally Posted by blankall
No one is supporting the US in the Vincennes incident. However, anyone who is stating that it's totally equivalent to the current incident in Iran is purposely being obtuse.
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Actually I think you'll find that, if you harken back to roughly posts 160-171 in this thread, you'll see an exchange I had with Peter12 where he does appear to explicitly support the US response to Vincennes, presumably on the understanding the US immediately took responsibility and apologized (which, based on sources I've researched including a Wapo article I quoted, the US did not).
The argument therefore has been made on this basis that the two incidents are not equivalent which, at least in the early stages, they appear to have been. Interestingly, Rouhani's admission and expression of remorse - which came 3 days after the incident and followed initial denials and misrepresentations - notably did not include an express apology, which again seems directly equivalent to the US approach.
If Iran either issues a formal apology or, within the next 8 years, pays compensation to the families of the victims, the argument could be made that their response to this tragedy has actually been better than the US response to the Vincennes incident.
All that to say there's a fair debate to be had around the equivalency of the two situations, and judgment will have to await the second response fully playing out.