Don’t Bomb Iran

In 1988, over 250 civilians were killed when a US warship shot down a scheduled Iran Air civilian flight, mostly people going to Mecca. The US said the USS Vincennes acted properly in self defence, and took four years to admit that it was in Iranian waters at the time, during the Iran-Iraq war. The BBC story is here Shortly this incident, the Iranians asked for a cease-fire that ended the war which Saddam had started 8 years earlier.

Also in 1988, the US navy destroyed half the Iranian navy in the biggest sea battle since WWI, in Operation Praying Mantis.