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.
The spokeswoman, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity, refused to comment further.
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.
Putin is to travel to Tehran tonight after meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
