Iran marks US navy's downing of Iranian airliner in 1988
Yusef Jalali
Press TV, Qom
This ceremony in the Iranian city of Qom marks the end of a weeklong occasion known as the US Human Rights Week.
The annual event commemorates a series of tragic incidents that killed hundreds of Iranians. The last day of the week, which falls on July 3, marks the 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airliner by the US navy, which killed all of the 290 people on board the doomed plane.
After more than three decades, Iran is still waiting for an apology from the US. The American Human Rights week also commemorates the 1981 bombing of the headquarters of Iran's Islamic Republic party, carried out by the formidable Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization, known as the MKO.
Seventy three leading officials, including the then Justice Chief, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti were killed in the terror attack. In 2012, the US and Europe delisted the MKO as a terrorist entity and since then, they have been holding regular meetings with the terror group, which is now based in France and Albania.
The 1987 chemical bombardment of Iran's city of Sardasht is another incident that falls in the same period on the Iranian calendar. Iraq's chemical weapons were reportedly produced using materials supplied by the US and other Western countries.
The 1981 attempted assassination of the then Iranian President Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei by the MKO is also among the incidents that's marked in the American Human Rights Week. Iran says the US footprints can be traced in all of the incidents that fall in this fateful week.
Activists here say Washington has so far shrugged off its crimes in Iran, and that's why the American Human Rights Week is marked every year to expose the US double standards regarding human rights.
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