Iranian Foreign Minister Walks Out Of Dinner With Rice

Associated Press ANNE GEARAN, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA May 4, 2007 09:00 AM
Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ostensibly because a 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.
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