Russian President Putin Shooting Gun

By Bill Kirk.

Some Russian news reports say President Vladimir Putin has been advised of an Iranian plot to assassinate him when he visits Iran this week. This is a debatable report, please read details below.

The Interfax news sgency said Sunday that suicide bombers have been training to attack Mr. Putin.

However the Kremlin has not made any comment on this story. A member of Russia’s parliamentary security committee stated to Russian TV sations, that the information came from intelligence sources which could be considered highly reliable.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry calls the reports totally baseless and says they are aimed at undermining Russian-Iranian relations. As of now we are not sure which side of this story are correct.

Mr. Putin is scheduled to arrive in Tehran Monday and plans to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They plan to attend a summit of nations bordering the Caspian Sea.

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U.S. officials Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates are in Moscow visiting President Putin.

Russia may opt out of a Cold War-era treaty limiting intermediate range missiles unless it was extended to countries beyond the United States and Russia, which are now the only signatories.

Addressing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Putin appeared to make fun of the U.S. missile defense plan, which is at the center of a tangle of arms control and diplomatic disputes between the USA and Russia.

“Of course we can sometime in the future decide that some anti-missile defense system should be established somewhere on the moon,” Putin said, according to an English translation. “But before we reach such arrangements we will lose the opportunity for fixing some particular arrangements between us.”

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