Martyr!
Videos
Martyr! is the 2024 debut novel by the Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar. A New York Times bestseller and one of the paper's Best Books of the Year So Far, it was a finalist for the 2024 Waterstones D
Martyr!
Iran Air Flight 655
Videos
Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a Uni
Martyr!
…father, Ali, an Iranian migrant worker on a chicken farm in rural Indiana, is now deceased. Cyrus grows up believing that his mother, Roya, died aboard Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian passenger plane shot down by a U.S. Navy missile during the closing stages of the Iran–Iraq War. Cyrus is interested in the idea of martyrdom…
Pieces of aircraft wreckage recovered from the Strait of Hormuz
EP-IBU, the aircraft involved, pictured in 1987
USS Vincennes had been deployed to the Persian Gulf to assist in oil tanker escorts.
The Combat Information Center on board Vincennes