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Mon 15 Oct, 2007 02:08 am
Is this Bush's way of saying: "Don't visit Iran?"
Putin is to travel to Tehran on Monday night from Germany after meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
During his visit to Iran, Putin is to meet with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and attend Tuesday's summit of Caspian Sea nations.
He will be the first Kremlin leader to travel to Iran since Josef Stalin attended a 1943 wartime summit with Britain's Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt.
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."
It seems that the US has been trying hard.
Ukrainian security officials said they foiled an attempt to kill Putin during a summit in Yalta in August 2000. And in 2001, Russian security officials said a plot to assassinate Putin earlier that year in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, had been uncovered by the Azeri special services.
@RedOct,
Yea reminds you of a kid pulling the smoke alarms to get out of second period class.
I'm sure we have no problem taking Putin out if we could bomb Iran and blame them for the deed. ..........pathetically transparent to me now.
@wvpeach,
We REALLY don't want Putin dead. The guy is insanely popular in Russia, and if it came out that the US assisted and/or did nothing to prevent his death, Russia would likely sever diplomatic ties with us, and put ballistic missiles in Iran.
I don't buy this report though. Presidents of great powers recieve assassination threats daily (our own Secret Service has a division dedicated to investigating these), and Russia's FSB and GRU (FBI and CIA) are pretty squared away (remember the KGB?). Putin will leave Iran an international hero for doing something no other leader had the balls to do; TALK.
@RedOct,
the real problem here is that putin is out soon. his term is up and he can't run again.
@briansol,
briansol;41693 wrote:the real problem here is that putin is out soon. his term is up and he can't run again.
He'll likely assume leadership of United Russia and run for the Duma, where he'll become Prime Minister. His current PM Zubkov will likely run for (and win) the presidency. If these two things happen, Putin will be de facto President until 2012 when he can run again.
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