The man and his wife were attending a court hearing in Reggio Emilia a= s part of separation proceedings when he pulled out a gun and pointed it = at his wife and her brother, then started shooting randomly, police said.=

"Iran ... has chosen a lasting logic in defending its national interes= ts because it is certain that excessive demands of the enemies of this na= tion has no limits.

"He was shooting like crazy at everybody," officer Antonio Turi said.<= /P>

The Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran in December for refusin= g to suspend enrichment, and modestly increased them in March after Tehra= n stepped up the program. Iran responded by giving the U.N. nuclear watch= dog less access to its nuclear facilities.

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Widespread strikes are expected to cripple Fr= ance's transport network just as rugby fans make their way to Paris for t= his weekend's World Cup final.

Putin met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and attended a su= mmit of Caspian Sea nations Tuesday, the first visit by a Kremlin leader = to Iran since Josef Stalin attended a 1943 summit with Winston Churchill = and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Unidentified relatives of the gunman's victims console one another out= side the courtroom.

Putin has bluntly spelled out his disagreements with Washington, sayin= g last week that he saw no "objective data" to prove Western claims that = Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.

High demand has pushed upward the price of a pair of tickets for the f= inal to as much as $3,000 in eBay auctions.

Commercial flights to the French capital were sold out, while thousand= s of England supporters have booked to travel on the Eurostar rail servic= e from London to Paris.

Vladimir Putin's visit was the first by a Kremlin leader to Iran since= 1943.

Khamenei told Putin that Iran is serious about continuing uranium enri= chment in turn but wants to avoid adventurism and cooperate with the U.N.= nuclear watchdog, the news agency said.

The wife was taken to a hospital, where she was declared clinically de= ad, Italian media reported. Her brother died at the scene.

"We will ponder your words and proposal," IRNA quoted Khamenei as sayi= ng.

The strike is expected to cripple France's national train network.

Russian officials could not immediately be reached to verify the repor= t and the Iranian news agency provided no details on what Putin had propo= sed.