Iran Air
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Oct 16, 2026
Bob MoriartyGUEST
The whole conflict between the Houthis and the Saudis that has come to a head now was caused by Saudi Arabia attacking an airfield.
Bob MoriartyGUEST
The Houthis sent a delegation to the funeral of the supreme leader of Iran When Iran Air went to fly them back to Yemen, the Saudis attacked the airstrip.
Bob MoriartyGUEST
Now that's kind of a meaningless thing to do because there's probably half a dozen airports in Yemen that these guys could have landed at.
Bob MoriartyGUEST
It was kind of a screw you gesture on the part of the Saudis.
Gary FairleyHOST
But I'd follow her on Instagram and she mentioned a book called Martyr by Kavi Akbar, a first-time author.
Gary FairleyHOST
I think he's a published poet already, but it's the story of a young man, an American-Iranian boy whose life's kind of in the shadow of his... his mother's death in the Iran Air tragedy in 1988.
Gary FairleyHOST
Do you remember the USS Vincennes? Shot it down, basically mistaking it for a military aircraft.
Gary FairleyHOST
Anyway, that's the happiest premise for the story.
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When international tension runs so high that human psychology creates disasters, and the actual truth of what happened remains fiercely disputed to this day.
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We have to look at Iran Air Flight 655, July 3rd, 1988.
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The USS Vincennes, a billion-dollar state-of-the-art Aegis cruiser commanded by Captain Will Rogers, is skirmishing with heavily armed Iranian speedboats in the Persian Gulf.
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The tension is palpable.
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Operating on that flawed human interpretation, Captain Rogers authorizes the launch of two surface-to-air missiles.
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It is so awful.
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They shoot down Iran Air 655, killing all two hundred and ninety civilians on board.
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And the tragic irony is the Vincennes was actually four kilometers inside Iranian territorial waters at the time.
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Wooden dhows still carried rice, carpets, and televisions between the Iranian coast and Dubai.
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And from the airport at Bandar Abbas, the port city on the Iranian side of the strait, an Iran Air passenger jet made a regular hop across the water to Dubai.
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The flight took less than half an hour.
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Families flew it to visit relatives on the other side, and traders flew it to buy goods to sell at home.
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The crew knew the route by heart, along an air corridor that every airline in the region used.
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It was so short and so familiar that it hardly felt like going abroad.
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Iran Air Flight 655 left Bandar Abbas twenty-seven minutes late.
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It was a Sunday morning, the third of July 1988.
Dan NewmanHOST
The researchers identified twelve sanctioned Iranian airlines among the arrivals.
Dan NewmanHOST
Iran Air Tour and Caspian Airlines each accounted for twelve of those landings, Iran Air for ten, and ATA Airlines and AVA Airlines for nine apiece.
Dan NewmanHOST
Eight of the twelve carriers identified the flight data were among the airlines newly designated by Treasury on September the 8th.
Dan NewmanHOST
Treasury Department said that it has continued raising the issue directly with senior Turkish officials, and has warned Turkish companies and Turkish financial institutions about their potential sanctions exposure.
Nicholas J.S. DaviesGUEST
Um, they-- Because of their blockade, the Saudis were only allowing, um, like one flight a week into the capital of Yemen.
Nicholas J.S. DaviesGUEST
And, um, after the funeral of Ali Khamenei, the, uh, the, the Supreme Leader of Iran, who was assassinated by the Israelis, um, a flight from Iran, Ira- an Iran Air flight bringing mourners from-- who'd gone to the funeral from Yemen back to Sana'a in Yemen.
Nicholas J.S. DaviesGUEST
And to prevent that plane landing, the Saudis came and bombed the, the runway at the airport.
Nicholas J.S. DaviesGUEST
And so the, the flight was forced to detour to, to Hodeidah on the coast, which is about a hundred miles away.
Shane SmithGUEST
... there's, they have one hour, a window of one hour, which I could tell a lot of stories about for this last trip.
Shane SmithGUEST
But you fly into, you fly into Istanbul, and then you have to go through Iran Air, and there's a one-hour window when you have to, like, get out in that window so that in that hour of window, I guess they know it's commercial or there's some treaty or something, I don't know.
Andy StumpfHOST
Okay.
Shane SmithGUEST
But you can get in and land, and they won't bomb you or shoot you down.
Sima ItayimHOST
And this came after Tehran recently vowed to paralyze regional airports cooperating with this campaign if they implement it.
Sima ItayimHOST
So also Iran Airlines have canceled flights as these U.S. sanctions hits.
Sima ItayimHOST
Georgia also, not just Azerbaijan, Georgia confirmed suspending flights.
Sima ItayimHOST
And also there were some flights to Baghdad and Muscat and Qatar that were halted because of this.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
What the sanctions imposed by Scott Besant's Treasury Department and the Trump administration are supposed to do is punish anyone who does business with any of the 27 aviation sector companies that are based in Iran.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
That includes the flagship, Iran Airlines, which is the most important airline in the country, and Mahan Air, which is also a very important airline, the second most important airline and long has been the target of neoconservatives in Washington over allegations that it does stuff for the IRGC.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
There's some really bad consequences to those particular sanctions, I think, particularly in the health sector.
Borzou DaragahiHOST
And Brett and I will get into that.
Alan SandersHOST
So even the sainted one knew what Iran was trying to do with their airline industry, or at least with that airline, with Mahan Air.
Alan SandersHOST
Iran Air, another business, and others, of course, followed in those sanctions.
Alan SandersHOST
But a couple dozen smaller carriers were still flying, still landing in neighboring countries, still buying fuel, still selling tickets, and still trying to keep the network alive.
Alan SandersHOST
So we go back just a couple of weeks ago, September 8th, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned all of them.
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