apparently he s not authorized to shake hands with the president of the united states, which is fine with me. maybe not. so when the iranians say that it s too complicated to shake president obama s hand they just didn t have time. the iranians said rouhani said to you today he basically didn t have time. of course they could have done it if they wanted to do it. but the press all day today they had said it s too complicated is not an iranian quote? the americans said that. in iran there was a very right wing newspaper, hard linus paper who said you shouldn t do it. but certainly american officials were a really complicated internal political fight going on. and this is what gives me pause. the revolutionary guard is really what runs the economy in iran. and they are really a tool of the ayatollah khomeini who s very conservative. it s hard to figure out what s going on.
whether the iranian government is authorized to talk on these issues and he said yes. i think that is actually quite important. apparently he s not authorized to shake hands with the president of the united states, which is fine with me. maybe not. so when the iranians say that it s too complicated to shake president obama s hand they just didn t have time. the iranians said rouhani said to you today he basically didn t have time. of course they could have done it if they wanted to do it. but the press all day today they had said it s too complicated is not an iranian quote? the americans said that. in iran there was a very right wing newspaper, hard linus paper who said you shouldn t do it. but certainly american officials were a really complicated internal political fight going on. and this is what gives me pause. the revolutionary guard is really what runs the economy in iran. and they are really a tool of