{"id":20529,"date":"2013-09-26T05:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20529"},"modified":"2013-09-26T05:58:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:58:48","slug":"the-handshake-that-was-never-going-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20529","title":{"rendered":"The Handshake That Was Never Going To Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal<\/a> posted an editorial entitled, “He’ s Just Not That Into You.” The editorial dealt with the fact that Hassan Rouhani, Iran<\/a>‘s current president, was not interested in a photo-op handshake with President Obama<\/a>. The editorial points out that President Clinton<\/a> was met with a similar refusal in 2000.<\/p>\n

The editorial reports:<\/p>\n

Back then, the explanation for Mr. Khatami’s refusal was that internal Iranian politics<\/a> would not have allowed it. On Tuesday, a senior Obama Administration official peddled a similar line after the Rouhani snub, telling reporters that Iranians “have an internal dynamic that they have to manage.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s one way of putting it. Another way is that Iran’s ruling clerics and Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> remain ideologically incapable of reconciling themselves to the Great Satan<\/a>. This shouldn’t surprise anyone who reviews the 34-year-history of Iranian rebuffs to American<\/a> diplomatic overtures, which makes the U.S. embarrassment on Tuesday all the more acute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thing to keep in mind here is that the president of Iran<\/a> has no power–the clerics rule the country. The president is chosen by the clerics and controlled by the clerics. Just for the record, they are not a moderate group.<\/p>\n

The editorial concludes:<\/p>\n

Politics in the normal sense doesn’t exist in Tehran, where the rules are set and the players chosen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a>, who is accountable to nobody. What Iran’s leaders do understand is how to humiliate adversaries they consider to be weak. We hope Mr. Obama appreciates how he has been schooled.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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