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Iran's general in charge of air defense systems on Saturday accepted "full responsibility" for the unintentional shootdown of a passenger plane in which 176 people died.

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' aerospace division, said that when he learned about the downing of the plane, he wished he "had died and would not have seen such incident," speaking in an address on the state TV.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Saturday acknowledged that it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible.

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