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		In an effort to strengthen relations between Iran and Venezuela, Iran Air announced last year that it would begin a new transatlantic route from Tehran and Caracas.
		The destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 occurred more than 20 years ago, but still proves quite relevant today, especially because of the incomplete and inconclusive evidence regarding the actual series of events on the night of August 31, 1983, and the whereabouts or remnants of the passengers and the airplane.
		In the first of a series of articles dedicated to reinvigorating the debate and the investigation into this mysterious incident, Bert Schlossberg recounts some of the details of KAL 007's deviation from its flight path, and the stalking of this flight by Maj. Osipovich in his Sukhoi 15 intercepter.
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	Iran Air Passenger Opinions about Iran Air product and service standards
		Connections between Iran Air and other carriers serving European hubs are generally good, and this particularly benefits expatriate Iranians living in the United States or Canada who wish to fly back to the old country on vacation, with easy connections in Europe.
		Iran Air are a bit dubious on the ground, but the service was good in the air.
		I don't blame Iran Air for her old fleet as this is due to the sanction by America.
	www.airlinequality.com /Forum/iran.htm (2445 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Iran Air (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran Air is the national and international airline of the islamic republic of Iran.
		Iran Air soon built a large route map consisting of flights all over the Middle East, to Northern Africa, Europe and New York, and including a dense domestic flight schedule.
		During the 1990s, Iran Air was able to buy some Fokker F-100[?] planes, but, again because of the embargo, that was the only type that joined the fleet during the '90s.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ir/Iran_Air (517 words)

	Iran Air
		Iran Air has been operating for more than 60 years.
		I enjoyed the clear sounds as it seemed you took away a lot of the engine and air ventilation sounds from the cockpit, which enabled us to hear the pilots exceptionally well.
		That includes the opening scenes, the cockpit and cabin scenes, and etc. I would also like to thank the people at IRAN AIR for their contributions.
	www.worldairroutes.com /Iran.html (854 words)

	Iran
		The southern parts of Iran are entirely coasts both on the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, which separate Iran from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman.
		Iran possesses 12,400,000 hectares of forests and woods, and 90,000,000 hectares of gardens (orchards).
		Iran has 115 swamps and marshes of various sizes, 24 of which are internationally recognized as being of great environmental value both with respect to their effects on the climate and with respect to the animals which have their habitats at the sites.
	www.iranair.com /s.do?p=/irn/index.jsp?rand=26939 (815 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Hisotry, airlines, Iran Air, Hamid Razavi
		It is proper to point to some air services activities that took place in Iran prior to 1927 and to start the mentioned date with a description of air operations that were carried out before that date to meet some public needs.
		Air services with Domino aircraft was continued for a long time by the Air Mail Department for the Ministry of P.T.T. and paid passengers were transported from Tehran to Isfahan, Shiraz, Bushehr, Kermanshah and Baghdad.
		As far as I was involved, the management of Iran Air was pressured by two sides; the manufacturer of the British jet, Trident who had succeeded to sell the aircraft to Iraq, Kuwait and other countries of the region and by Boeing company that had proposed the sale of Boeing 727 Tri-engined aircraft.
	www.iranian.com /History/April98/Iranair (2786 words)

	Iran Culture and Information Center
		Iran rejected this action and hostilities escalated as the two sides exchanged bombing raids deep into each other's territory, beginning what was to be a protracted and extremely costly war.
		Iran's retaliatory attacks were largely ineffective because a limited number of aircraft equipped with long-range antiship missiles and ships with long-range surface-to-surface missiles were deployed.
		Iran agreed to the release of 5,584 Iraqi POW's in April 1998, and news organizations reported intermittent meetings throughout the remainder of the year between Iranian and Iraqi government officials toward reaching a final agreement on the remaining POW's held by each side.
	www.iranvision.com /iraniraqwar.html (7496 words)

	Iran (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran is faced with a litany of environmental problems, many of which the country is only beginning to tackle as the problems reach a crisis point.
		The Green Party of Iran, which was recently founded in response to the country's deteriorating environmental conditions, said that most car owners in Iran ignored the call to switch off their engines for 3 minutes.
		Iran's per capita carbon emissions are relatively low--at 1.3 metric tons of carbon emitted per person in 2000, Iran is significantly lower than corresponding figure for the United States (5.6) and other industrialized countries.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/iranenv.html (1912 words)

	Boeing's CH-47C Chinook in service to Iran. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Shah of Iran left the country in February 1979 and Islamic Republic of Iran was announced on April 1st, 1979.
		Prior to their delivery, it should be noted, Boeing Vertol had sent samples to Iran for operational evaluation in high and hot desert environmental conditions.
		In 2001, Iran was estimated to have an inventory of several thousand tons of various agents, including sulfur mustard, phosgene, and cyanide agents, with a total production capacity estimated at as much as 1000 tons a year.
	www.chinook-helicopter.com /history/aircraft/iran/iranian.html (1673 words)

	Operation Blind Fury. War in Afghanistan. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran has placed a considerable emphasis on its air force in its post-Gulf War military strategy, as a means of countering the growing US military presence in the Gulf.
		Iran is understood, although this has not been confirmed, to have ordered up to 12 Tu-22M-3 `Backfire C' long-range strategic bombers from Russia or Ukraine.
		Iran refused to acknowledge the arrival of more than 22 of these aircraft, which Iraq claimed to include a further 33 civil-registered types; those belonging to Kuwait have been returned.
	www.aeronautics.ru /archive/vif2_project/iran_af.htm (2120 words)

	US warplanes violate Iran's air space
		Five US warplanes entered Iran's air space last Thursday night from the southwestern Shalamcheh border and flew over the city of Khorramshahr for a while, press reports said Tuesday.
		Iran has been wary of the occupation forces' presence on its doorsteps in Iraq and carefully watched their movements.
		Their equipment reportedly consisted of personal weapons, radios and navigation equipment, including echo sounders to measure the depth of the water, global positioning systems to identify the exact position and up-to-date maritime charts.
	www.infowars.com /print/ww3/violate_iran_airspace.htm (228 words)

	Middle East Perspectives: Iran - Israel's Air Strike Options
		Let's assume that Iran has exhausted the world’s patience over its “peaceful nuclear energy” research program - a program most analysts believe is a cover for a nuclear weapons program.
		Since the Israeli air force does not operate stealth aircraft, there is a reasonable expectation that at some point the aircraft will be detected over Saudi Arabia, either by ground based radar or the AWACS airborne radar platforms.
		The use of Turkish airspace for the tanker aircraft to enter Iraq is probably not an option for the same reasons that it is not an option for the fighters – political sensitivities on the part of the Turks and operational security considerations on the part of the Israelis.
	francona.blogspot.com /2006/03/iran-israels-air-strike-options.html (1643 words)

	History of Iran: Shooting Down Iran Air Flight 655 [IR655]
		The official ICAO report stated that these attempts to contact Iran Air 655 were sent on the wrong frequency and addressed to a non-existent "Iranian F-14".
		In fact, at the time of the Iran Air incident, U.S. forces were militarily engaged with Iranian forces as a result of the latter’s unprovoked attacks upon neutral ships and a U.S. Navy helicopter.
		This was an agreed settlement to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/articles/shootingdown_iranair_flight655.php (3385 words)

	Iran's Regional Powerhouse
		Iran's ballistic missile manufacturing program lacks the capability to produce some parts that are essential for the total production of some types of systems.
		Iran's military buildup has been tempered somewhat by its economic woes, which include a US embargo, a cash shortage because of low oil prices worldwide, rapid population growth, and an external debt estimated at $35 billion.
		Iran's plan for its conventional forces evidently calls for creating units that are more maneuverable and have more advanced weapons for Tehran's specific purposes--war against forward-deployed US forces, Iraq, or other Persian Gulf nations.
	www.afa.org /magazine/june1996/0696iran.asp (2168 words)

	CNN.com - Fog halts Iran air crash search - Feb. 20, 2003
		The death toll exceeded that of Iran's previous worst air disaster in 1988, when an Iran Air A-300 Airbus was shot down over the Gulf by the U.S. warship Vincennes which wrongly identified it as an attacking fighter.
		Since 1979 and the imposition of U.S. sanctions, Iran has been forced to supplement its fleet of Boeing and European-made Airbus airliners with planes bought or leased from the former Soviet Union and analysts say there are difficulties obtaining factory-approved spare parts.
		Iran is not allowed to buy European-made Airbuses because about 40 percent of their parts are U.S. made.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.crash (702 words)

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		January 19, 2006: The Iranian Air Force is still recovering from the effects of the 1979 revolution (an embargo on spare parts and new aircraft).
		Iran also got a fair number of Su-24 Fencers (16-18 of which were from Saddam’s regime), that are organized into one squadron.
		Iran’s Air Force is held together by ingenuity a lot of scrounging, and they have also been upgrading their force with modern Russian aircraft.
	www.strategypage.com /htmw/htairfo/articles/20060119.aspx (512 words)

	IranExpert:Sanctions clip Iran Air's wings
		Iran Air, goes the latest joke, appears to be doing the same.
		Ali Bashiri, chief spokesman for Iran Air, admits the pressures - "domestic and foreign, political and economic" - are intense.
		But, as he points out, Iran Air has a good international safety record, its pilots are experienced and other airlines fly even older planes.
	www.iranexpert.com /2002/iranairswings15october.htm (415 words)

	U.S. Uses Drones to Probe Iran For Arms (washingtonpost.com)
		Iran is engaged in diplomacy with France, Britain and Germany aimed at ending a 2 1/2-year crisis over Tehran's nuclear ambitions that began when Iranian defectors exposed a large uranium enrichment facility in August 2002.
		After a briefing by their air force three weeks ago, Iran's national security officials ordered their forces not to turn on the radar or come into contact with the drones in any way.
		Iran has agreed to stop enriching uranium, a key ingredient for a bomb, while it is engaged in talks with European governments.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A19820-2005Feb12.html (1379 words)

	The Iran Problem
		Iran has harbored fugitive al Qaeda members, charge US officials, and is attempting to extend its influence across its border into western Afghanistan.
		Iran's strategic position in the Middle East is a crossroads of trouble.
		Air defense relies mainly on 100 Hawk missiles from the Shah's era, with a scattering of newer, shorter-range Soviet- and Chinese-made models.
	www.afa.org /magazine/Dec2002/1202iran.asp (3180 words)

	THE AIR WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran's Air Force, unable to seriously contest Iraq's recent massive bombing of Iranian cities, has been virtually out of the war this year.
		Iran's only reply to Iraq's bombing campaign has been to fire about a dozen Soviet Scud-B SSMs, presumed to be of Libyan origin, at Baghdad—not exactly a missile blitz.
		This formidable buildup of air power appears to be the result of a February 1984 Soviet decision to actively help Iraq win the war, even though the Soviets know as well as anyone else that Iran is the strategic prize in the region.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1986/mar-apr/segal.html (3460 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Iran hails air mine system in military maneuvers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran's army deployed an air mine system in its ongoing military maneuvers, saying the weapon would make the country's airspace highly insecure for enemy planes, the Fars news agency reported on Monday.
		Shoulder-launched rocket is another type of weapon designed to protect Iran's air space, he said, adding that the weapon is very light and of high velocity and could be distributed among a wide range of troops very quickly.
		The army "interrupted deployment of air units of the enemy by means of different tactics after identifying the enemy's major points of reliance," he said.
	english.people.com.cn /200608/22/eng20060822_295393.html (388 words)

	Worldandnation: Iran blames air industry troubles on U.S. sanctions
		TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran acknowledged on Tuesday that its air industry was suffering from U.S. sanctions and warned there will be more air disasters if sanctions on purchase of U.S.-made planes were not lifted.
		Several of Iran's aging Boeing and Airbus planes have been grounded because of technical problems and lack of spare parts, Khorram said, warning that he should not be held responsible if more planes crashed in Iran.
		Iran has a total of about 80 working passenger planes, a veteran Iran pilot told the Associated Press speaking on condition of anonymity.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/01/01/Worldandnation/Iran_blames_air_indus.shtml (495 words)

	Iran Transportation - Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		I also bought the one way ticket from Tabriz to Tehran that cost me just USD 12, Iran Air was having their promotional fares at that time so I was told by the lady who sold me the ticket.
		Iran Air has the cheapest prices, the fleet is somewhat old, but well-maintained.
		By the way, even on Iran Air, it's OK for women passengers to remain hair uncovered etc., until the end of the flight alighting from the plane upon Iranian territory.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Middle_East/Iran/Transportation-Iran-BR-5.html (1190 words)

	albawaba.com middle east news information::Iran Air reports increased activity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran's national flag carrier Iran Air (Homa) carried about 855,000 passengers in August 2005, according to Iran Air's Public Relations Department.
		Additionally, increases of 4.5 and 16.1 percent were recorded in number of Iran Air's flights in August 2005 compared to July this year and August of 2004 respectively.
		Iran Air conducted 10,525 hours of flight in August, a figure showing a healthy growth of 4.6 percent compared to July and 9.2 percent compared to last year's August.
	www.albawaba.com /en/countries/Iran/190262 (141 words)

	History of Iran: Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988
		Iraq claimed the 200-kilometer channel up to the Iranian shore as its territory, while Iran insisted that the line running down the middle of the waterway negotiated last in 1975, was the official border.
		In the battle for Dezful in Khouzestan, where a major air base is located, the local Iranian army commander requested air support in order to avoid a defeat.
		Iran stopped Iraqi forces on the Karoun River and, with limited military stocks, unveiled its "human wave" assaults, which used thousands of Basij (Popular Mobilization Army or People's Army) volunteers.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/iran_iraq_war/iran_iraq_war1.php (2586 words)

	Iran Air Links
		Operates several 5 star hotels in major cities in Iran.
		Plenty of info on where to go, what to see.
		Iran Air UK reserves the right to revise any terms, conditions, rates, or other information, presented here,
	www.iranair.co.uk /links.htm (0 words)

	KAL 007 and Iran Air 655
		Editorials condemning the KAL shoot down were filled with phrases like "wanton killing," "reckless aerial murder" and "no conceivable excuse." But when Iran Air's flight 655 was blown out of the sky on July 3, excuses were more than conceivable — they were profuse.
		In his lead, Apple observed that "the destruction of an Iranian airliner...came as a sharp reminder of the pervasive role of error in military history." The piece drew many parallels to the Iran jetliner's tragic end — citing examples from the American Revolution, World War II and Vietnam — while ignoring the most obvious analogy.
		The Iran Air jet went down in broad daylight, well within its approved commercial airline course over international waters, without ever having strayed into any unauthorized air space.
	www.fair.org /extra/best-of-extra/kal007-iranair655.html (766 words)

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