Assassins plot to kill Putin in Iran: Interfax

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[Sub-Driver]

Assassins plot to kill Putin in Iran: Interfax

By James Kilner 20 minutes ago

Russian special services have been warned of a plot to assassinate President Vladimir Putin when he visits Iran on Tuesday, Interfax news agency said on Sunday.

Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as totally baseless and intended to undermine Russian-Iranian relations.

Interfax said Russian security services had been told that suicide bombers and kidnappers were training to kill or capture Putin during this week's historic visit, which will be watched closely in Washington and other Western capitals.

"A reliable source in one of the Russian special services, has received information from several sources outside Russia, that during the president of Russia's visit to Tehran an assassination attempt is being plotted," the report said.

"A number of groups of suicide bombers are preparing for this aim."

Interfax quoted Kremlin sources as saying they had no comment on the report, but that the president had been informed.

Putin, who will be the first Kremlin chief to visit Iran since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin went in 1943, will formally be in Tehran for a summit of Caspian Sea states.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Hey... ya get in bed with dogs, ya wake up with fleas!

[Nathan Zachary]

As if they would assassinate their #1 arms supplier, and future partner in the new Persian Empire.

[Ron in Acreage]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

[Ron in Acreage]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

[txhurl]

bttt

[F15Eagle]

Russian special services have been warned of a plot to assassinate President Vladimir Putin when he visits Iran on Tuesday, Interfax news agency said on Sunday.

Lemme see if I got this straight: jihadists are going to kill the guy who is helping them get nuclear reactors they can use to create nuclear material for eventual use against their arch-enemy Israel?

Seems pretty hard to believe. But then they aren't always rational ... so ....

[AdmSmith]

We will know in a couple of days if this is more than a publicity stint.

[johnny7]

Gog and Magog... a split? Not likely...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" We will know in a couple of days if this is more than a publicity stint. "
Or could it be a lame excuse for Putin not to visit Iran in case the USA decides to attack Iran ?

[Joe Boucher]

Wouldn’t lose any sleep if Puttie got hit. mite celebrate like a pali and go out in the yard and shoot one of my guns in the air to celebrate.
Hard to not root for the mooselimbs on this one.

[bill1952]

A reliable source in one of the Russian special services, has received information from several sources

Yawn.

[Bon mots]

Pootie Poot has been assassinating people for years, so nobody will feel very sorry for him when it's his turn.

[airborne]

Or could it be a lame excuse for Putin not to visit Iran in case the USA decides to attack Iran ?

Your comment makes more sense.

And you are a lot more reliable than anything from the drive by media. ;^)

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Or could it be a lame excuse for Putin not to visit Iran in case the USA decides to attack Iran ?
Your comment makes is more sense plausible.
And you are a lot more reliable than anything from the drive by media. ;^)
There now, fixed. Think about it ? Iran, Russia buddy buddies, and someone wants to bump Putin off in Iran ? come on, Russia knows we Might ? attack Iran at any time now.

[seemoAR]

Assassins in Iran. You have to be kidding. :0)

[Straight Vermonter]

I can’t imagine that there is anything to this.

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

He might want to pass on that curried Polonium, at dinner.

[txhurl]

If he cancels, everybody keep heads way up.

[jeffers]

2+2=17.

Sufficiently unusual to warrant full attention, given the context.

Interfax told us.

A mid-level Russian spook told Interfax?

The spook was compartmented in deep enough to learn this, or heard something he wasn’t meant to hear at the water cooler.

Up the chain, the Iran desk flags the IA or sends it up the chain preflagged, discussion is had, decisions are made, actions implemented, safes are locked, silence.

Who would have been the next source outside said spook’s agency?

Assets in Iran, yes?

Who got it from....previously developed sources....?

Best I got for now.

So...Interfax would lie...why?

Midlevel spook would lie, why?

High level spookmasters would devise this disinfo op...why?

Russian assets in Iran would lie, why?

A developed source would lie for...all kinds of reasons.

If they’re all telling the truth, who in Iran wants to kill Pooty?

And, obviously, why?

And whats does the answer mean in terms of The Clock?

Do we need to re-activate Nek?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks AdmSmith. Alas, if it’s in the media, it can’t be much of a plot. Too bad.