Tehran, Dec 19, SPA -- Iran denied on Monday media reports that a firefight last week in the country's lawless southeastern borderlands was anassassination attempt on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Government officials said Ahmadinejad was making a speech in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, on Wednesday when a car carrying security forces was attacked by smugglers on the road to the Gulf port of Chaharbahar. "During the attack, the local driver and a Revolutionary Guardsman was killed. The police immediately intervened. One smuggler was killed and one arrested," government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham told a news conference. Some domestic and foreign reports described the attack as an assassination attempt, but officials said the vehicle that came under fire was not part of Ahmadinjad's cavalcade and that there had been no question of the president travelling on that road. The vehicle had been deployed as part of large-scale security measures imposed for the presidential visit. "The attack just shows this region is very insecure for everyone: Sunnis, Shi'ites, Baluch and non-Baluch," Elham was quoted as saying by Reuters. --SPA 1238 Local Time 0938 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/312924