Artists Vow Not To Forget Victims Of Government Violence, Downing Of Airliner

The Islamic Republic has still not declared the precise number of those killed during the violent crackdown. Nor has it apologized for killing innocent passengers or named those responsible for the attack the government simply calls "human error," although it acknowledged three days after the attack that an IRGC unit was responsible, but never explained why a civilian aircraft was allowed to fly while a missile attack against American military bases was going on and air defense units anticipated retaliatory attacks by the United States' forces.