Iran-US-Elham
Government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said here Thursday that attack on a civilian plane is against all humanitarian regulations.

"Attack on a civilian plane and massacre of a group of innocent men, women and children, is another page in crimes of the `big Satan', the US. That's an act contrary to all human regulations and humanitarian principles," Elham said, while speaking in a ceremony on the occasion of the downing of an Iranian passenger plane by a US frigate in the Persian Gulf in 1988.

Elham said Iran can not be threatened and any body planning to target its dignity will be given a crushing response.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has never been a threat to the region and today too it adheres to all the world regulations and treaties powerfully and treads the path to peace and justice in favor of mankind," he added.

In April 1988, the American Navy frigate USS Vincennes fired two missiles at an Iranian airliner, Iran Air flight 655, over the Persian Gulf killing all 290 passengers and crew, among them 65 children.

Elham said the US recent threats against Iran are cowardly acts to guarantee its survival and continued domination over the world.