Iran’s official IRNA agency quotes an unnamed diplomatic official as saying Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, also known as “Smiley,”(take a look at his photo) came upon Obama “accidentally” and the two shook hands.
A White House official confirmed this Tuesday, saying “there was a brief interaction at the luncheon, where they shook hands.” This official spoke on grounds of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. It represented the first handshake between an American president and Iran’s top diplomat since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted a pro-Western monarchy in Iran. The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since then.
Source: NY Post
Geesh! One would think Obama had done something disastrous and of major global import, like singing a deal to give Iran permission to build a nuclear bomb. Talk about blowing things out of proportion… The media just blows this way out of proportion.
