Topic: Terrorists In Iran Had Plot To Kill Putin, Russia Says

Los Angeles Times
October 15, 2007 The president will be visiting this week. A Tehran spokesman calls the report baseless.
By Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir V. Putin has been told about 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.
Interfax news agency, citing a source in Russia's special services, said suicide terrorists had been trained to carry out the assassination.
A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, Mohammed Ali Hosseini, denied any plot had been uncovered, characterizing the news as disinformation spread by Iran's adversaries.
"These sort of reports are completely baseless and in direction with psychological operations of enemies of relations between Iran and Russia," Hosseini said in a statement.
Putin is to travel to Tehran today from Germany after meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
He is slated to meet there with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and attend Tuesday's summit of Caspian Sea nations.
Putin will be the first Kremlin leader to travel to Iran since 1943, when Josef Stalin attended a wartime summit with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.