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Monday, October 15, 2007
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has been told of a plot to assassinate him during a visit to Iran this week, a Kremlin spokeswoman said Sunday.
The spokeswoman, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity, refused further comment.
An international news agency, citing a source in Russia's special services, said suicide terrorists had been trained to carry out the assassination.
Putin is to travel to Teheran on Monday night from Germany after meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The news agency said security services had been told that suicide bombers and kidnappers were training to kill or capture Putin on his visit, which will be watched closely in Western capitals pushing Moscow for a harder line over Tehran's nuclear plans.
"A reliable source in one of the Russian special services, has received information from several sources outside Russia, that during the president of Russia's visit to Tehran an assassination attempt is being plotted," the report said.
Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as totally baseless and calculated by Tehran's enemies -- an apparent reference to Western powers -- to undermine Russian-Iranian relations.
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has been told of a plot to assassinate him during a visit to Iran this week, a Kremlin spokeswoman said Sunday.
The spokeswoman, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity, refused further comment.
An international news agency, citing a source in Russia's special services, said suicide terrorists had been trained to carry out the assassination.
Putin is to travel to Teheran on Monday night from Germany after meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The news agency said security services had been told that suicide bombers and kidnappers were training to kill or capture Putin on his visit, which will be watched closely in Western capitals pushing Moscow for a harder line over Tehran's nuclear plans.
"A reliable source in one of the Russian special services, has received information from several sources outside Russia, that during the president of Russia's visit to Tehran an assassination attempt is being plotted," the report said.
Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as totally baseless and calculated by Tehran's enemies -- an apparent reference to Western powers -- to undermine Russian-Iranian relations.
