Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has accepted full responsibility for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner.
"Iran Guards commander accepts responsibility for downed plane, Iran's state TV reports," AFP reported on Twitter.
On January 11, Iran admitted that its military had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet.
In this regard, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter that the crash had been caused by a "human error."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani apologized for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane by the Iranian military, expressing his condolences to the families of the dead. He called the plane crash a disastrous mistake.
A Ukraine International Airlines plane (flight PS752), en route from Tehran to Kyiv, crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport early on January 8. There were 176 people on board the aircraft. All of them died. The crash killed 11 Ukrainians (two passengers and all nine crew), 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, ten Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans, and three Britons.