FILE PHOTO: Iranians gather to show their sympathy to the victims of the crash of the Boeing 737-800 plane, flight PS 752, in Tehran, Iran January 11, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
DUBAI (Reuters) - Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the country's clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake.
Iran's president called last week's downing of the Ukrainian plane a "disastrous mistake" on Saturday, and said its air defences responded in error while on alert after Iran carried out missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq.
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