TEHRAN, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Tehran on Tuesday morning, not on Monday evening as earlier announced, the office of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. Putin, who held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Wiesbaden on Monday, said he would visit Iran to discuss its nuclear programme despite a reported assassination plot against him. "Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Tehran, heading a delegation, tomorrow morning after leaving Germany," the Iranian presidential office said on its Web site. The Kremlin declined to comment on when the president would arrive. Putin is attending a summit of leaders from the five Caspian Sea states in the Iranian capital on Tuesday.
People dressed up as Guantanamo prisoners protest against extending the mission in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, outside the building where a NATO defence ministers meeting is taking place in Noordwijk October 25, 2007. NATO defence ministers agreed on Thursday to scale down the alliance's ambition to keep a 25,000-strong rapid reaction force on standby, ready to intervene in crises around the world. The project was a victim of the pressure on NATO members to maintain a 40,000-strong force in Afghanistan, a mission some argue is proof that NATO is in any case revamping its armies to meet far-flung military challenges. The signs read: "More transparency about Iraq now, no war against Iran, troops out of Afghanistan" and "Wanted, George W. Bush terrorist". REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS)