Toy Firecracker News Today

Reports out of the western city here. according the pro government iranian web sites including a news agency which is tightly tied to the homegrown corps, someone threw a hand grenade at the convoy of mahmoud ahmadinejad and one person was contained. but hours before, a spokesman for ahmadinejad was denying that any attack had taken place. he told cnn that this was in fact a toy firecracker, the kind that children play with and nobody had been injured in the incident and he said that the western...

Developing story right now out of western iran. conflicting reports as to whether someone actually tried to assassinate iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad. media reports say that a grenade exploded today near his convoy, but the iranian presidential office is denying them saying it was nothing but a firecracker. i actually spoke with our reza sayah last hour from islamabad. >> reporter: this doesnt seem like a serious incident, of course, there was a lot of conflicting reports that have been ...

Revolutionary guard corps started reporting that somebody had thrown a home-made hand grenade at presidents convoy, and somebody had been detained in connection with what appeared to be an attack. within a matter of hours, tj, we started hearing from members of ahmadinejads team that no attack had taken place. in fact, his media adviser said that this was really a toy firecracker, the kind that children play with, that some overenthusiastic supporter threw near the convoy, that nobody had been i...

A report that says, not so fast and even said this was just a matter of fireworks. our ivan watson following this confusing story for us right now from istanbul, turkey. have they cleared anything up for us yet, the government of iran. >> reporter: well, there have been more statements coming from the iranian government saying that, no assassination attempt took place. a spokesman from the iranian president, he tells cnn that this was a toy firecracker that was thrown. that nobody was injured. p...

It got a lot of attention, but about an hour ago i spoke to a adviser for president mahmoud ahmadinejad, and he told me everyone should calm down, because no one tried to kill the iranian president. he described this item that apparently blew up as a toy firecracker. he said this was someone playing with a firecracker. the kind children play with. the kind you use when you want to celebrate. this was a toy. and there were no injuries. but the western media made it bigger than it is. we should po...

Efnl wally the u.s. supreme court. conflicting reports on a possible assassination attempt against irans president today. iranian media reported a man threw a homemade grenade at ahmadinejads motorcade, where the photographs show his security detail flinching, but the iranians presidents office said the explosion was a fire cracker and not a bomb. >> reporter: this doesnt seem like a serious incident. of course, there were a lot of conflicting reports that were coming in over the past several ...