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Hello and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an unforgiveable mista ke. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has more. This is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. For three days, in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. But this morning brought an extraordinary about face. On state run television, a Senior Commander of the powerful revolutionary guards came out, on the orders of the supreme leader, to come clean. He explained that irans air defences had been on alert. They thought american cruise missiles had been fired. A quick deci

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