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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 media was blowing this out of proportion. it is tough for us to know exactly what happened, because...

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 doesn't seem like a serious incident, of course, there was a lot of conflicting reports that have been coming in over the past several hours that got a lot of attention. but about an hour ago i spoke to...

Revolutionary guard corps started reporting that somebody had thrown a home-made hand grenade at president's 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 ahmadinejad's 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 injured. and he accused the western media of blowing this all out of proportion. part of the proble...

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. part of the confusion is that a number of pro-government iranian websites, including the force news a...

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 point out that initially, it wasn't the western media that reported this, it was two iranian governmen...