<span style="color: #222222;">An Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander has said his unit accepts full responsibility for the accidental shoot-down of a Ukrainian passenger plane. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In an address broadcast by state TV today, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that when he learned about the downing of the plane, which killed all 176 passengers on board, he wished that he should have been died. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Iran's armed forces said they mistook the passenger plane for a hostile target in the tense aftermath of Iran's ballistic missile attack on two military bases in Iraq housing US troops. That attack was retaliation for the killing of Iran's top General, Qassem Soleimani, in an American air strike in Baghdad.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed his profound regret and apologized for the human error which caused crash for the Ukrainian passenger plane.</span><br />''