This makes sense to me. It explains to me why the Navy was on the scene, as if they had information and were expecting something. It explains why the administration didn't want to respond to the attack. It explains why the CIA was involved in cooking up the cover story (that by itself always struck me as very odd in itself). And it explains why they were so determined that it was not terrorism... indeed, they announced what the results of the investigation would be before the investigation started. This makes a kind of sense.
It makes excellent sense, because if the truth were known, the American public would have demanded a war with Iran. That is exactly the reason why it is possible to get so many people who know what really happened, to shut up about it. They know exactly what the consequences would be if the public learned what rogue Iranians had done. Not only that, but it would have been highly damaging to the Air Travel industry back in 1996.
The problem is, too many people know about this, and the story will eventually get out, at least I think it will.