and Iran reached a settlement at the International Court of Justice, which included the statement ". In 1996, during the Clinton Administration, the governments of the U.S.
continued to insist that Vincennes was acting in "self-defense". When Reagan was directly asked if he considered the statement an apology, he replied, "Yes." However, the U.S. In the days immediately following the incident, President Ronald Reagan issued a written diplomatic note to the Iranian government, expressing deep regret.
Rogers III, for overly aggressive behavior in a tense and dangerous environment. Some analysts blamed the captain of Vincennes, William C. The event generated a great deal of criticism of the United States. According to Iran, the cruiser negligently shot down the aircraft, which was transmitting IFF squawks in Mode III, a signal that identified it as a civilian aircraft, and not Mode II as used by Iranian military aircraft. military asserts that the Vincennes had made ten attempts to contact the aircraft both on military and civilian frequencies but received no response. While the F-14s had been supplied to Iran in an air-to-air configuration, the Vincennes crew had been briefed that the Iranian F-14s were equipped with air-to-ground ordnance. According to the United States, the Vincennes crew had incorrectly identified the Airbus as an attacking F-14 Tomcat, a U.S.-made jet fighter that had been part of the Iranian Air Force inventory since the 1970s. The reason for the downing has been disputed between the governments of the two countries. Vincennes had entered Iranian territorial waters after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits. The attack occurred during the Iran–Iraq War, which had been continuing for nearly eight years. The missiles hit the aircraft, an Airbus A300, while it was flying its usual route over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, shortly after the flight departed its stopover location, Bandar Abbas International Airport. Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired by the USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. Iranian offensives to free Iranian territory (1981–82)
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