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Conflicting reports over what the device was -- a homemade grenade or a large firecracker. >> reporter: john, there are some conflicting reports. the latest reports are coming from perhaps the most credible sources in iran and that's iran's state funded press tv. those reports deny that this was an assassination attempt. they're saying this was not a grenade and it was a firecracker that exploded near the president's convoy. but about an hour ago you had two government linked websites that say indeed this was an assassination attempt, that the president had just arrived in the city in central ...
It means no non-stealth aircraft can survive the surface to air missile threat that the iranians will put up. that means that the israelis have got to strike very quickly. >> tension is already very high in the middle east, fighting erupted along the israel-lebanon border tuesday. it was the deadliest clash since the brief israel-hezbollah war four years ago. prime minister netanyahu warned israel will continue to respond to threats with force. meanwhile, there is tension inside iran. following reports of an attack on president mahmoud ahmadinejad's motorcade. the government quickly insisted i...
Journalists. those reports also saying whoever tossed this explosive device is in custody. but again the latest reports now saying this was not an assassination attempt, this was a firecracker. just got off the phone with a senior iranian government official. he didn't even know about it, john and kiran. so right now we're working the phones to find out more details of exactly what happened earlier today in the city of hamadan in iran. >> we'll check in with you later about this reported assassination attempt. also this morning it could be the beginning of the end of the 107-day long nightma...
Efnl wally the u.s. supreme court. conflicting reports on a possible assassination attempt against iran's president today. iranian media reported a man threw a homemade grenade at ahmadinejad's motorcade, where the photographs show his security detail flinching, but the iranian's president's office said the explosion was a fire cracker and not a bomb. >> reporter: this doesn't seem like a serious incident. of course, there were a lot of conflicting reports that were coming in over the past several hours that got a lot of attention. but about an hour ago i spoke with an adviser of president m...