The U.S. government never apologized for the infamous destruction of an Iranian civilian airliner either:

A little over a year after the [Iraqi] attack [on the USS Stark], on July 3, 1988, two surface-to-air missiles are fired at Iran Air flight 655 by the USS Vincennes, an Aegis-class cruiser. The USS Vincennes was reportedly inside Iranian territorial waters at the time. The first missile cut civilian airliner Iran Air 655 in half. All 290 passengers and crew aboard the Iranian airbus were killed.

According to journalist Robert Fisk, who, at the time was in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas where the human remains of flight 655 were collected, "...in her open coffin Leila Behbahani was still in the same garments and bracelets that she had worn when she was fished out of the water minutes after the Vincennes brought down the passenger plane -- a green dress and white pinafore, two bright gold bangles on each wrist, white socks, and tiny black shoes. Leila was three-years old. There were 66 children on board the aircraft."

George H. W. Bush was quoted after the American attack on the Iranian civilian airliner IR 655: "I will never apologize for the United States -- I don't care what the facts are."

Sorry about the double post. It's due to this horrible typekey page you have.

Strobel, you're such a liar. You can't even gets the facts right on a story that's supposed to be your own!

You got called out as a liar on McClatchyWatch's blog.

You're pathetic. And a verified liar.

From
http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/mossadegh.html :

2000 - On 17 March US Secretary of State Madeline Albright publicly admits to the role of the US in the 1953 coup.

"The United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh," Albright says.

"The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons. But the coup was clearly a set back for Iran's political development and it is easy to see why so many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs."

Warren, you are a true journalistic luminary. You actually have a pulse and a conscience, and it shows. Your reporting empowers individuals (Average Joe), not senators, gavel-wielders and bureaucrats. For this, you should be praised constantly.

I would like to add just one thing to your comment about the lack of an official Iranian apology: the U.S. government never officially apologized for its major role in the overthrowing of Mossadegh, and subsequent subsidizing of decades of "Stalin-lite" Shah rule. (I'm assuming that you see the significance of this history to the overtaking of the embassy; but I also understand the overriding emotional factor at work here. I, too, recall the ordeal as a youngster, though not in as personal a way as yours.)

In fact, the U.S. govt. has done nothing if not egregiously violated the 1981 Algiers Accords all these years. When was the last time AP, the NYT, Reuters, or AFP mentioned the Accords — much less, in relation to the U.S. taxpayer-subsidized MeK, unilateral sanctions, asset freezes, and so forth? If McClatchy has mentioned the Algiers Accords in context with the U.S.-Iran row these past few years, I've not seen it.

Still, McClatchy is a bastion among the cartellized press, thanks to folks like you. Maybe one day it will be independent of the "collective"; then perhaps you won't have to be relegated almost-exclusively to the blogs.

Be well.