There have been angry protests on the streets of iran after the countrys military finally admitted it did shoot down a ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board. Iran says it made a disastrous mistake when it wrongly identified the plane as a cruise missile. Demonstrators in tehran have been calling for irans Supreme Leader to resign, as our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. Almost from the moment the ukrainian airliner crashed, early on wednesday morning, officials in tehran furiously rejected the growing video and intelligence evidence suggesting it had been hit by an iranian missile. Then, an abrupt about turn. In a flurry of social media postings, irans president spoke of a disastrous mistake. The foreign minister talked of human error. The ambassador in london apologised for misleading the media with wrong findings. A senior military commander explained that irans air defences had been on high alert after the attack on us bases in iraq, and the aircr
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