Iran denies attack on Ahmadinejad

Iranian authorities have denied reports of a grenade attack on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidential motorcade. Khabar Online, an Iranian website, had earlier reported on Wednesday that a homemade grenade exploded near the president's convoy in western Iran, but he was unhurt. The website said the explosion happened as Ahmadinejad was on his way to address a crowd and that one person had been arrested. Al Jazeera's Alireza Ronaghi, reporting from Iran, said: "Presidential sources say a firecracker went off near Ahmadinejad's convoy. They deny it was anything bigger than that and say Ahmadinejad and his entourage are OK. "When I contacted the president's office in Tehran [the capital of Iran], officials vehemently denied any such incident," he said.

"I also gathered information from some journalists who were part of Ahmadinejad's convoy and they said they haven't heard or seen anything." I think it must have been something so insignificant or so small that nobody noticed anything."

aljazeera.net