Fact Check: After Trump’s ’52’ threat, Rouhani speaks of ‘290’. What did he mean?

The 290 mentioned by Rouhani is the number of people killed after a US warship in the Strait of Hormuz shot down an Iranian passenger airliner — Iran Air Flight IR655 from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai — over Iranian territorial waters on July 3, 1988. Among those killed were 66 children.

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