FILE - In this Monday, July 2, 2012 file photo, Najmeh Arshad, an Iranian woman whose father was killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 24 years ago, scatters flowers into the Persian Gulf during a ceremony remembering the 290 passengers at the spot where the airliner was downed. In the waters of the Persian Gulf just off Iran, mourners tossed flowers from a helicopter and a ferry Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Navy shooting down of an Iranian commercial airline, killing 290 people. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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