| Russia divulges Putin assassination plot LYNN BERRY MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has been told about a plot
to assassinate him during a visit to Iran this week, a Kremlin spokeswoman
said Sunday. 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, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, denied any such 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.
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