Word: persian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...windfall. Public memorial services took place in at least four cities. At Bandar Abbas, the coastal town from which the doomed jet took off, reporters were given a look at some of the bloated and mutilated bodies of the victims, about 170 of whom had been dragged from the Persian Gulf by week...
Bush said Iran should not have sent the Airbus into a Persian Gulf battle zone. The Vincennes and the USS Elmer Montgomery had skirmished with Iranian attack boats just before the jetliner entered the area...
...vice president, who said he was delivering "the free world's case," called the destruction of the airliner a "terrible human tragedy" but said the United States has a "legal right" to protect Persian Gulf shipping lanes...
Iran requested the council meeting to seek condemnation of the U.S. action and demand withdrawal of all American forces from the Persian Gulf, but has been unable to enlist a majority to support a resolution...
...issue confronting this body is not the how and why of Iran Air 655," Bush declared. "It is the continuing refusal of Iran to comply with Resolution 598, to negotiate an end to the war with Iraq and to cease its acts of aggression against neutral shipping in the Persian Gulf...