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Iran Guards commander accepts responsibility for downed plane

AFP, Tehran

Sat Jan 11, 2020 04:52 PM Last update on: Sat Jan 11, 2020 04:58 PM

An Iranian holds a newspaper with a picture of the debris of the Ukrainian plane that crashed in Tehran earlier this week, outside a news stand in the Islamic republic's capital on January 11, 2020. Iran said it "unintentionally" shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet earlier this week, killing all 176 people on board, in an abrupt about-turn after initially denying Western claims it was struck by a missile. Photo: AFP / Atta Kenare

The aerospace commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday accepted full responsibility for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet that killed all 176 people on board.

“I take full responsibility and I will obey whatever decision is taken,” Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh said in remarks broadcast on state television.