Thousands of Iranians chanting “Death to America,” participate in a mass funeral for 76 people killed when the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, in Tehran, Iran, July 7, 1988. They hold aloft a drawing depicting the incident. 290 people were killed in the July 3, 1988 incident. Mohammad Sayyad/CP/AP hide caption
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Thousands of Iranians chanting “Death to America,” participate in a mass funeral for 76 people killed when the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, in Tehran, Iran, July 7, 1988. They hold aloft a drawing depicting the incident. 290 people were killed in the July 3, 1988 incident.
Mohammad Sayyad/CP/AP
Military confrontations, early-morning attacks, and digital warfare: the story of Iran and the U.S. from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the fraught moment we’re in today.
This episode originally ran as Rules of Engagement. You can find more of Throughline’s coverage into the origins of the conflict in the Middle East here.
If you would like to read more on the topic, here’s a list:
- The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist
- Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter
- The Root: The Marines in Beirut by Eric Hammel
- Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State by David Patrikarakos
