The state-controlled Russian news agency TASS released a video on Wednesday showing Putin coughing and wheezing during a press conference after a week’s trip to Iran.
The news agency itself points to the president’s hosting. In the video, he apologizes for it in the following way, and laughs a little:
– It was 38 degrees in Tehran yesterday, and the air conditioning was very efficient. That’s why I cough.
Vladimir Putin, speaking at the forum “Strong Ideas for a New Time”, apologized for the cough, explaining it by the “fluffy” air conditioners during his visit to Tehran the day before:https://t.co/k2ORYudHyW
There has been speculation for a long time that Putin is seriously ill. However, there is no evidence for that, the director of the CIA, William Burns, is to be believed.
To BBC Burns says there is no hard evidence for these speculations. On the contrary, he joked that Putin seems to be “much too healthy”.
Putin’s visit to Iran this week is his first foreign trip outside friendly countries of the former Soviet Union since the war began.
– These are large, important countries on the world stage, and far greater prestige is attached to the visit, Tor Bukkvoll, senior researcher at the Norwegian Defense Research Institute (FFI), told Dagbladet.
During the visit, Putin has met Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Vengeance
Ahead of the meeting between Putin and Erdogan, the Russian president had to wait for one minute in front of the lightning storm of the press. This is considered a power play, which Putin himself is no stranger to using against other countries’ leaders.
It is speculated that Erdogan did this as revenge against Putin, after he himself was subjected to the same.
In the video, Putin appears clearly uncomfortable and restless as he waits for his Turkish colleague.
