Posted on 05/04/2007 12:50:03 PM PDT by llevrok
(CBS/AP) Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.
"I don't know which woman he was afraid of, the woman in the red dress or the secretary of state," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday, regarding the actions of Iran's Manouchehr Mottaki.
Rice herself was questioned by reporters about the lack of a direct conversation with Mottaki, even though it appeared she was "chasing" him.
"Uh, well, you could ask him why he didn't make an effort," she replied. Then she laughed. "Look, I'm not given to chasing anyone."
So the face to face between Rice and Mottaki never happened, reports CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata. Instead, U.S. and Iranian delegations met at a lower, "expert" level, which while significant, is not a first.
"Our officials did, as they did in Baghdad, have an opportunity to exchange views about the substance of this meeting," Rice said.
The dinner episode Thursday night amid a major regional conference on Iraq perfectly revealed how hard it was to bring together the top diplomats of the two rival nations.
Going into the summit, the Iraqi government had hoped for a breakthrough meeting between Rice and Mottaki. Instead, their only direct contact was a wary exchange of pleasantries over lunch Thursday, punctuated by a wry, somewhat mysterious comment by Mottaki.
Mottaki walked out of the diplomats' dinner on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.
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It’s a point of power....humiliating them by forcing them to deal with our women. If we back down then we lose face. If we keep on with it til they knuckle under finally, THEY lose face.
So, because we have to talk to Muslim men, we have to deny our culture and become one with theirs? Seems you have already accepted their right for dominion over all others.
The fact that Muslims can not deal with women should make women in America shake in their boots and show what life would be like if Muslims win their goal of world domination.
If they can’t handle the fire - get out of the kitchen and back in their caves which reflect exactly their living standards.
America has a culture and possibly they might want to conform to that culture when dealing with the superpower of the world.
If President Bush or the other elites had sons in combat they would place avoiding annihilation ahead of the feminist culture.
Appoint a man and make progress!
You just declared war on anyone who does not agree with the feminist culture.
America was based on the Judeo/Christian culture. If you want to switch to the feminist culture, there will be annihilation.
Prepare to die (and have fat children - the ones that survive long enough to get born).
I really doubt he was uncomfortable with anything except how his public behavior would be construed by his patrons.
After the original Borat slobbered all over his primary school teacher's hand, these guys are jumpy around women, I guess.
Makes sense...
Yup, run away and take cover!
Nice f curves.
It provides justification for mistreatment of women, of course. And shifts any responsibility whatsoever from the males.
Correction: f holes.
The Iranian excused himself early. He was going to cast the first stone at a young girls stoning.
I know all you men would love to see her g-string.....
Yeah, I hear Jimmuh Cahtuh is available. Seriously, you're barking up the wrong tree. These piggies are perfectly capable of talking to women, they just have nothing to say right now, they're buying time till their nukes are ready. Then they'll have plenty to say to everyone, females included..
He's a hard line Islamist, Shiite type. He's afraid of both, along with all other women.
He *should* be afraid of Condi, she's one step from the person who can order this little pissant's country blown clean off the planet.
Y'all know the rules:
Now where's the picture of the revealingly dressed Egyptian female violinist?
If Condi was chasing him, and she caught him, it would be to stomp all over his lard ash.
I hate to tell the dude, but dissing the SecState whose father armed himsself and stood up to the NightRiders, is not exactly a way to preserve your country, especially when there's a 'cowboy' in the Whitehouse who doesn't like it when folks don't act 'proper' around the ladies.
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