Russian President Vladimir Putin has come to Tehran on a trip that has attracted the attention of Iranian media and has been covered as the top story online and on the front pages of newspapers worldwide.
Labeling Putin the "new czar of Russia," the Reformist Shargh daily wrote Nov. 1, “Perhaps Putin owes this [title] to getting his country out of a situation that resembles to many Russians the turbulence of the 1990s and reviving Russia as a superpower in the world.”