Devil In A Red Dress!
It's not easy being the Iranian Foreign Minister. Manouchehr Mottaki is in Egypt with other representatives of the Arab world and the representatives of the USA to discuss the security situation in Iraq. He abruptly left a dinner where he was to sit opposite US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, complaining that a red dress worn by an entertainer was too revealing.
US officials said Mottaki complained to his Egyptian host the red dress worn by a Russian violinist, the entertainer for the evening, was offensive and he could not stay for the beachside dinner at the Sheraton hotel at the Red Sea resort.
"I am not sure which woman he was afraid of, the woman in the red dress or the secretary of state," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack of the incident.
A red dress, revealing or not, should not be a reason to cut and run before the pufferfish salad has even hit the tablecloth. Certainly, helping to stablize Iraq should be a higher cause to get through dinner than a violinist in a Red cocktail dress.
I think it was a case of "any excuse is a good excuse" and allowed the man to get out of meeting with Condi. In fact, I think the mullahs are afraid of her. A woman in a powerful position? Quite an anomaly in Islamic jurisprudence, now isn't she?
Oh, the HORROR!...
ABF, for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran
4 comments:
Haha this is crazy. She must have made him really uncomfortable :)
I think he was scared of Condi!
I don't know why I keep expecting that the outcomes of these gatherings would be any different, but I do, and every single time I am humiliated by what they do and say on behalf of 70 million people! Some days I wished I could have the luxury of looking at the goings on and laugh, because it really is comic! Of course, if you understand and follow the politics of Iran, you will know that the very attendance of Mottaki in that room was the major feat they accomplished, and having done that, there will now be a host of secret and public meetings, and leaving for the sake of the "lady in red" was an appeasement tactic for those in Tehran who can't hack a civilized act of diplomacy in one step. Be good Serendip.
Nazy jan: good point. His behavior can be described in the context of the culture he comes from. It is almost dictated by cultural norms to act the way he did.
He probably felt compelled to do this because he thought that's what is "expected" of him to do in order to get respect and approval from his cohorts.
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