By G L Simons
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This is now taken to be an absurd suggestion, though it remains odd that an Iran Air captain should have been prepared to fly a civilian airbus over a military confrontation. One suggestion is that the Bandar Abbas control tower received warnings from the US ship but failed to pass on the warnings to IR 655. Here an Iranian source has been quoted: 'The Americans issue warnings all the time. The Iranians think to themselves, "What right do the Americans have to give warnings to us in our own territory?
The blowing up of UTA 772 was the worst terrorist outrage that France had suffered. In an ITN television broadcast in December 1991 it was declared that the French authorities still did not know who had planted the bomb. At the same time efforts were being made to convince the world that the Libyan government had sole responsibility for the outrage. The terrorist attacks on PA 103 and UTA 772 can be viewed as discrete outrages unrelated to prior political events, horrendous onslaughts on innocent human beings.
Nor could the SEATO Treaty be cited to justify US intervention in Vietnam. In fact, faced with the threat of a French veto, Washington did not press for a formal SEATO commitment (even if this had been achieved it would have been invalid since the SEATO Treaty was subordinate to the UN Charter). 52 The Memorandum ends with a quotation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, making his last address to the Congress and urging an end to 'the system of unilateral action . . that has been tried for centuries - and has always failed'.