Wednesday, August 4, 2010

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survives 'assassination attempt'

The website khabaronline.ir reported that the president's car was about 100 yards away from the site of the blast

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 'attacked by grenade' Al Arabiya television said an attacker threw a bomb at Mr Ahmadinejad's convoy before being detained.

A home-made bomb exploded near the convoy, a source from the president's office told Reuters, but Mr Ahmadinejad, who was travelling from an airport in the western city of Hamadan to give a speech in a sports arena, was unharmed.

TIranian Presidenthe website khabaronline.ir  reported that the hardline president's car was about 100 yards away from the site of the blast.

The website said it had no information about whether other people were injured.

"The explosion caused a lot of smoke," it said.

However, an official from Mr Ahmadinejad's media office told AFP that the president's motorcade had not been attacked by a grenade. The explosion

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