Why Did US Bomb Iran? The Hidden Reasons Behind a Decades-Long Shadow War
The first American airstrike on Iranian soil wasn’t a declaration of war—it was a calculated strike in 1987, when an F-14 Tomcat shot down an Iranian Airbus carrying civilian passengers. The U.S. claimed it was a “mistake,” but the incident exposed a truth: America’s relationship with Iran had long been defined by violence, not diplomacy. […]