Iran has admitted "unintentionally" shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board. We recognize that this may have been done accidentally,” he added. “The arrest of our ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law,” Foreign Secretary “It can continue its march toward pariah status with all the political and economic isolation that entails, or take steps to de-escalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forwards,” Mr. Raab said.The Iranian authorities plan to summon Mr. Macaire for questioning on Sunday, Tasnim reported.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine praised the 45-member Ukrainian investigative team that arrived in Iran this week for helping bring the circumstances of the disaster to light.“Their high professionalism and promptness and the preliminary evidence they found in Tehran have not allowed the truth to be hidden,” Mr. Zelensky said in In the address, Mr. Zelensky said Ukraine had received important intelligence from the United States and Britain, but he called on the international community to be “persistent until all the circumstances of the crash are identified.” He pledged that “the guilty will be punished” and that the bodies of Ukrainians killed in the crash would be returned promptly.Earlier, in a Facebook posting, Mr. Zelensky said Kyiv would “insist on a full admission of guilt” from Iran. Today, by some counts, Canada has the third-largest number of expatriate Iranians in the world and its universities are a top destination for Iranian graduate students.Though Canada has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since 2012, Mr. Trudeau spoke to President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on Saturday and said the Iranian leader promised to cooperate with Canadian investigators.International pressure had been building on Iran to take responsibility. Though human rights issues have not typically been at the top of the administration’s agenda, Mr. Trump called on the Iranian authorities to allow rights groups to monitor the protests and report abuses. “If there was a mistake, it was made by one of our members.”But facing the possibility of American military strikes on Iran on Wednesday, Mr. Rouhani added, the armed forces made a “human mistake.”“This painful incident is not something we can easily overcome,” he added, saying that was imperative to correct shortcomings in the country’s defense mechanisms.Iranians vented fury toward their government after Tehran’s admission, with thousands pouring into main squares around the city Saturday afternoon. “As we saw it, Iran had to face the reality that there’s no way they’ll get out of this,” he said.But Mr. Danilov said Iranian authorities had complicated the investigation by scraping the wreckage into piles rather than photographing and mapping the coordinates. A second missile is usually fired immediately after the first.At that point, the plane, in flames, glided down to its demise.Reporting was contributed by Farnaz Fassihi, Anton Troianovski, Ian Austen, Andrew E. Kramer, James Glanz, Malachy Browne, Christiaan Triebert, Ivan Nechepurenko and Edward Wong.Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 left Tehran’s international airport at 6:12 a.m. and lost contact two minutes later, according to a flight tracker.Thousands of protesters gathered Saturday in Iran, furious at their government’s admission that it had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing 176 people.In a video address on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine pledged that the perpetrators of an attack on an airliner would be punished and that the bodies of the Ukrainians killed in the crash would be promptly returned.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the White House on Friday.A photograph released by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader shows General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, right, on January 9.Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, via Associated PressJustin Trudeau on Thursday at a vigil in Ottawa for the victims of the plane crash.The New York Times has obtained and verified video showing the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit in Iran.Bodies of the victims lay near the site of the Ukrainian plane crash on the outskirts of Tehran on Wednesday.The Tor-M1 anti-aircraft defense system during a military parade in Tehran in 2009. During a press conference, Mr Morrison said it was a "terrible" event that required investigating. It said the debris appeared to be that of a Russian-made Tor-M1 missile known to be possessed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy laid flowers at the airport of Boryspil, where the crashed plane was based, and declared January 9 a day of national mourning.In a television statement, Mr Zelenskiy asked people to refrain from manipulation, speculation, conspiracy theories and hasty evaluations regarding the crash.Ukraine Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danylov said the country's investigators wanted to search for possible Russian missile debris after seeing information on the internet.He referred to an unverified image circulated on Iranian social media purportedly showing the debris of a Russian-made Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile of the kind used by the Iranian military.Ukrainian investigators into the crash include experts who participated in the investigation into the How the parents of the Maslin children filled the silence after their children were 'shot out of the sky'.Chairman of Strategic Aviation Solutions Neil Hansford told the ABC the circumstances described by the Iranians "just had no credibility" and speculated the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was similar to"It didn't deviate, there was no voice recordings, it didn't try to turn back and it complied very well on one engine and it just had no credibility," Mr Hansford said.He also said the pictures of the wreckage indicated it was shot down. A brief summary on the Iranian foreign ministry website only said the two “conferred on the recent crash of a Ukrainian plane in Tehran as well as other issues of mutual interest.”The crash came after a week of soaring tensions in the Middle East, occurring just hours after Iran launched missile attacks on bases in Iraq where American and allied troops are stationed. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has intelligence that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jet on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, while new footage has emerged showing a midair explosion.The footage from an unknown source appears to show an explosion close to Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752's last transponder position.It shows a bright object moving through the sky beforeThe plane went down shortly after taking off from Iran's capitalAmong those killed in the crash were 63 Canadians, as well as 82 Iranians, 11 Ukrainians and 10 Swedes, among others.