Putin to travel to Iran despite "plot"

October 15, 2007

Putin was holding talks in Germany with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and told a news conference he was not going to cancel his trip to Iran to discuss its nuclear programme. A Russian news agency had reported that Putin had been warned by his special services of a possible plot to assassinate him during his visit to Tehran. Putin is the first Kremlin leader to visit Iran since Josef Stalin went there in 1943. Joanna Partridge reports for Reuters