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Iran president delays visit to Russia


    YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not travel to Russia for an Asian security summit on Monday, a source in the Iranian embassy in Moscow told Reuters.

    "The president will definitely not come today," the official, who asked not to be named, said. The source would not say why the visit was delayed but added that Ahmedinejad would arrive on Tuesday.

    (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Gleb Bryanski, editing by Michael Stott)